Boston Dynamics already makes similar robots that can dance really well – which is even scarier. In which a killer robot mercilessly stalked a terrified woman. Hopefully the hashtag thing will come along soon. Last year, scientists created robot bees to help pollinate flowers. In this Nordic noir-inspired episode, robotic bees killed people who used certain hashtags.
#THE BLACK MIRROR SEASON ONE EPISODE 1 SERIES#
Hated in the Nation – series three, episode six Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy 13. It all seemed preposterous … USS Callister.
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It all seemed preposterous until Mark Zuckerberg started banging on about the metaverse – now it’s probably a couple of years away. USS Callister – series four, episode oneĪn embittered programmer tortured sentient digital avatars based on his real-life coworkers. It doesn’t exist yet, but that doesn’t mean that developers aren’t trying. In Playtest, a neural network videogame learned players’ personal fears. Online blackmail definitely predates Black Mirror, although to be fair they are increasingly intricate, like the one seen in this episode. Shut Up and Dance – series three, episode three We’ve known that for a decade and a half already – do keep up. Smithereens – series five, episode twoĪ man learned that social media might be bad. Thankfully this one hasn’t come to pass, although two years after it was broadcast Channel 4 launched Hunted, a series where members of the public are chased across the country for cash, so it kind of happened? 17. In which a prisoner had her memory wiped so that she could be hunted for sport on a gameshow. No such chips exist, though soldiers have been taught to dehumanise their enemies without technology for hundreds of years. This time soldiers were implanted with microprocessors that dehumanised their enemies. Men Against Fire – series three, episode five Another terrible idea that has yet to be implemented. This time, a mother put one in her daughter’s brain to monitor her as a child and conveniently left it there, allowing her to see through her eyes. Arkangel – series four, episode twoĪnother episode of Black Mirror, another chip. Sometimes even the awful world of big tech knows when something is a bad idea.
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Jon Hamm starred in this instalment, in which chips were implanted into people’s brains that “blocked” unwanted people by blurring them out. Miley Cyrus had her soul trapped in a doll in Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too. Buyer beware, though: it’s unlikely to contain the actual soul of Miley Cyrus.Ĭhild’s play. You can buy a 2008 Hannah Montana Christmas doll on eBay for about 20 quid. Starring Miley Cyrus, this episode saw the personality of singer Ashley O become trapped in a toy, Ashley Too. Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too – series five, episode three This was not Black Mirror at its most Black Mirror-est. The technology to make computer games in the 1980s, er, existed in the 1980s. In which someone tried to make a computer game in the 1980s.
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But has every Black Mirror episode managed to predict the future? Below is every single episode ranked from least to most prescient. Perhaps its biggest legacy, however, has been its uncanny ability to tell stories about things that would subsequently become reality. In that time, it has grown from a weird little British anthology show to a global hit, spawning no end of shoddy imitators in its wake. N ext week, Black Mirror will be a decade old.