The Best Black Mirror Episodes

 https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-black-mirror-episodes#intcid=_wired-uk-bottom-recirc_f3570b39-14c1-4390-a15f-ab0e266e55ab_text2vec1

Black_Mirror has certainly become an interesting part of the Sci-Fi entertainment landscape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes

https://www.vulture.com/2016/10/every-black-mirror-episode-from-worst-to-best.html

https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Mirror_Wiki

Will there ever be another season?

https://www.thedigitalfix.com/black-mirror/season-6-release-date

https://movieweb.com/black-mirror-season-6-everything-we-know

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Mirror

Black Mirror Dictatorship - Is It Upon Us? (Russell Brand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qK4fXWnhw

https://www.fastcompany.com/40512450/black-mirror-is-obsessed-with-digital-hell-because-we-are-living-in-it

http://blog.umd.edu/blackmirrorreflections/2017/12/16/black-mirror-serves-as-a-warning-for-the-future

https://www.businessinsider.com/black-mirror-predictions-reality-2016-10

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13440972/black-mirror-season-3-episode-6-hated-in-the-nation-recap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror#Episodes

Are humans to just end up like lab mice in some global A.I. maze?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5HTLkmWwfM

The old Pruitt_Igoe housing maze.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Pruitt-igoeUSGS02.jpg

Why are people expected to live like mice in a maze?

http://bostonreview.net/blog/fischer-public-housing-experiment

https://www.guernicamag.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-public-housing-in-nyc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing#Brazil

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Minha_Casa%2C_Minha_Vida_em_Eun%C3%A1polis_%28Bahia%29.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Hong_Kong

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Kin_Ming_Estate.jpg

https://gizmodo.com/these-surreal-photos-of-hong-kongs-aging-towers-arent-483852763

"The people who live in these unregulated conditions suffer greatly. They are often bitten by bugs and mice that share their caged homes."

https://allthatsinteresting.com/hong-kong-housing-crisis

Enter the technological maze of control. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System#Implementation_by_Chinese_government

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=housing

‘Black Mirror’ Sets Season 7 Cast

 https://deadline.com/2024/09/netflix-black-mirror-season-7-cast-issa-rae-awkwafina-paul-giamatti-1236093687/

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/black-mirror-season-7-cast-revealed-in-a-cryptic-computer-message-203343148.html

https://x.com/blackmirror

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Mirror

The 11 Scariest Twilight Zone Episodes to Give You Chills

 https://the-line-up.com/scariest-twilight-zone-episodes

In spite of not having today's special effects, The_Twilight_Zone was still so far ahead of its time.

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-twilight-zone-day-may-11/

https://www.yourbigsky.com/local-news-2/step-into-national-twilight-zone-day/

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/twilight-zone-day/

https://www.kxnet.com/video/national-day-calendar-national-twilight-zone-day/

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/black-mirror-twilight-zone-differences-jordan-peele-1202054105 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KfTdy6045U

https://ew.com/creative-work/the-twilight-zone-2019-reboot/

https://screenrant.com/black-mirror-modern-generation-twilight-zone-reason 

https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2548523/ways-black-mirror-is-better-than-the-twilight-zone

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Twilight+Zone

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Mirror

Odd Ripples Around WR Star 140

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_140 This image in 2022 just might look a little familiar.

https://universemagazine.com/en/james-webb-saw-a-pair-of-stars-emitting-rings-of-gas

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/2020/57/1298-Video?keyword=Massive%20Stars

https://bgr.com/science/james-webb-telescope-captured-a-remarkable-phenomenon-weve-never-seen-before

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-odd-ripples-image

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/bonkers-james-webb-space-telescope-captures-mysterious-rings-around-a-star-71662389158152.html

https://www.livescience.com/james-webb-space-telescope-odd-ripples-image

Perhaps some people might want to call it, the Bandersnatch Star, or the Black+Mirror Star. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror:_Bandersnatch 2018

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6536489/Choose-adventure-Black-Mirror-movie-one-TRILLION-different-story-combinations.html

BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH Every Ending Explained! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ws5byaevo

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50

https://www.noirlab.edu/public/images/viewall

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+James+Webb+Space+Telescope

Smart LA 2028: Technology for a better Los Angeles?

 https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/node/212391

All this surveillance and coordination technology can help any city to be more efficient.

https://ita.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph1626/files/2021-05/SmartLA2028%20-%20Smart%20City%20Strategy.pdf

However, if ever totally run by AI and not humans, a totalitarian situation could emerge producing inhumane results.

https://www.geoweeknews.com/news/la28-2028-olympics-autodesk-technology-bim-retrofitting

https://dot.la/smart-la-2028-2659008086.html No matter how much high-technology can be applied, if there aren't enough emergency water tanks to fight fires, its pointless!

Technology is a series of tools, but such tools should never be used to turn L.A. or the world into a series of Black+Mirror episodes.

https://ita.lacity.gov/smartla2028 , https://la28.org/en.html

https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2021/07/how-los-angeles-plans-become-smarter-city-2028-olympics People might say that its too expensive to have a series of above and underground water reseevours to fight fires with. Now look at what has happened to the unprepared Greater LA Area. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Mirror

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alphaville

Technologies of the "BLACK MIRROR" series

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9FTvn9iqco , https://www.youtube.com/c/PROROBOTS/videos

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059 , https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70264888

Black_Mirror has certainly made quite a cultural_impact in media and society.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Mirror

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’

 https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai

Unfortunately, some people would really like to have the world become like a series of interconnected Black Mirror episodes. Indeed, why use technology to improve freedom, when it can also be used to transform the world into a totalitarian prison? A 4IR world would certainly mean a lot more control over the human herd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution#Artificial_intelligence

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w

"Welcome to your life There's no turning back Even while we sleep We will find you..." Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World 

https://x.com/blackmirror

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Mirror 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Larry+Ellison

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is being removed from the Netflix streaming service

 https://www.joblo.com/bandersnatch-kimmy-schmidt-netflix

Just like an e-book, anything digital can easily be discontinued, banned or deleted. More people are starting to realize that its good to have some hard copies of books, DVDs & Blu-ray Discs incase its censored or becomes FORBIDDEN. Canceled streams and deleted ebooks can be so frustrating.

The Fahrenheit_451 story and its adaptations, is about banned books and even people that are burned away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film)#Plot This version ends with various people being commissioned to remember a particular book.

Amazon Prime’s ‘Upload’ Is ‘The Good Place’ Meets ‘Altered Carbon,’ Which Actually Works

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2020/05/03/amazon-primes-upload-is-the-good-place-meets-altered-carbon-which-actually-works/?sh=7a10ebec1fd8

Sometimes it take a while for people to start to ponder the nature of reality. All the myths, legends, books, movies and TV+series can provide symbolic clues about what might be going on. 

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/upload-amazon-prime-review

https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/30/21243028/upload-review-amazon-prime-merges-greg-daniels-black-mirror-the-good-place-robbie-amell

https://slate.com/culture/2020/04/upload-amazon-series-review-greg-daniels-good-place.html

https://screenrant.com/upload-amazon-good-place-afterlife-heaven-comparison-similar/

The ideal of another dimension or realm that people can go to or return from, has been an entertaining Sci-Fi theme for quite a while.

https://interestingengineering.com/we-are-probably-living-in-a-simulation-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-simulation-theory

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk

Of course a lot of Sci-Fi entertainment is cautionary or even intended to scare it out of you. This is all part of the BM entertainment stream. 

https://retellingthetales.com/myths-legends-fables-and-fairy-tales

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Upload+Season+2