English - Critic | March 3, 1971 -
Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.
Charlie Brooker
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If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.
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I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.
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Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.
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I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.
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I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.
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Online, you play at being yourself.
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People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.
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The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'
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New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
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What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.
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In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.
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