Charlie Brooker’s Anti-Viral Wipe brought some much-needed humour to a very dark situation.
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Charlie Brooker shouting at the TV is the comic relief needed in the pandemic. The return of The Wipe is as pointed as it is hopeful.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs after testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in April 2018 about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 presidential election and data privacy.
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Knowledge of our selves, quantified in big data and transformed into affective algorithms, is exploited by corporations and political parties to give us our 15 minutes of fame.
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Netflix hit, Black Mirror, follows in the footsteps of other forward-thinking sci-fi storytellers.
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By surrendering to technology are humans sleepwalking into a future where free will is less and less of an option?