The "Black Mirror" has always had an unusual ability to walk the line between relevant and futuristic. His creators manage to weave new, exciting and frightening technologies and cultural concepts in situations that are shockingly close to what we see as the 21st century. Often, this starts with a worldly or at least easily understandable situation, such as an unwanted political candidate, a strained marriage or loss of a loved one. Then the show will add a twist (or Let viewers do this with episodes like "bands") that takes things in an unexpected direction.

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This is fun alone, but you can find that kind of writing in many scientific shows. What makes Netflix's special anthology of "Dark Science" on Netflix is ​​its ability to predict the future. From time to time, the show took advantage of the inevitable march of technology to suggest fictional situations that we subsequently see playing in the real world. Don't believe us? Here are just a few of the most obvious examples in the long -standing history of the show so far.

The first episode of Season 2, "Be Immediately Back", aired back in 2013. It shows a terrible and pregnant Martha (Haley Atwell), which deals with the loss of her partner, Ash (Domhel Glason). In her sadness, she decided to order a digital and physical ash replica. The robot is programmed with the use of his words and behaviors and is so close to the form and function that creates a valley effect in real life. In the end, the similarities are too close to comfort, and Martha locks the automatic in the ceiling.

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It is worth noting that the digital replica is a concept that the show is back and over and over. For example, the episode of the 3 San Junipero season is used to investigate digital retirement after death. Season 4 Episode USS Calister (along with its rare episode of sequel in Season 7) characterize the concept as a way to build a whole science team in a video game. And do not forget when it is infamously used to create home assistants in the finals of season 2, "White Christmas" (The episode that inspired Apple's Severance Science series).

It is not much needed to see how the concept "be right back" has already begun to infiltrate in real life. AI's arrival in recent years has made the creation of Android ash much more realistic. Physical elements would still be a challenge, but AI programs are already capable of some degree of copying people - and in 2022, the Re: Mars Conference, Amazon revealed technology that can imitate human voice. This was immediately tied to a "black mirror" and labeled as a bad idea For obvious reasons. However, technology is here, and the question is only on time until someone is ready to use it.

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The episode of the season 4 "Hang The Dj" explored a dating from a new angle, one managed by artificial intelligence. The episode came out at the end of 2017, followed by Amy (Georgina Campbell) and Frank (OEO Cole) as they were moving along a strange socializing program where each connection had a pre -setting date. In the end, they are with each other and together, they come out of the complex where the program takes place, just to discover that they are digital recreations of their real world. Of the 1,000 such recreations, 998 of them are rebelling together, revealing that their "real" is a good match accordingly-look for it-their most modern dating application.

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Quickly forward in the mid -2024. Whitney Wolf Herd is the CEO of the popular Bumber dating application, and she has revealed a new feature "AI Dating Consierge" coming to the application. Here's what he had to say about it (through Wealth):

"If you want to go out really there, there is a world in which your (AI) dating Consier could go and date for you with another socializing consort.

Yes. Regardless of when it finally comes out, the age of digital dating Concierge seems less than a decade to translate the science screen of real life.

Most episodes of the "Black Mirror" have a dark disturbing side in their premises, but that was not the case with "wearing". A seemingly innocent episode of Season 3 came out in 2016 and followed Lassi Pound (Brice Dallas Howard), a desperate sociality looking for a way to improve her already reasonable reputation. The episode reveals a world where you can only access beautiful things if you have a high rating for approval from your peers. Asking to increase her game from 4.2 out of 5 stars to something polite, she starts at a high profile wedding. On the way and during the wedding, she completely tendered her result, which led to the arrest and realization that she could finally offend others without fear of losing something else.

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The spike episode is a fantastic taking on social media and it doesn't take much to see parallels in the real world. However, where you work is conscientious, is the desire to bind social status to access and success. In 2020, Techtimes It has announced that the Chinese city of Subzhou has "passed the whole" black mirror "by launching an application with the disturbing name of" Citizenship Code ". It is designed to monitor and evaluate the social behavior of its citizens. Every person starts with 1,000 points and can earn them through things like volunteering or losing them through something like traffic. While localized, the example of the real world is a frightening reminder of the potential of social media outside the hell of Jomo and Domscrollang.

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Let's go back to season 1, where the second episode "Black Mirror", "Fifteen Million Merit" forced everyone to rethink their priorities. Along with dealing with some deep ethical dilemmas, the experience quietly doubled as a warning to the microtransive dawn era. The episode, which came out in 2011, is followed by Bing (Daniel Kalujia) in a futuristic world where people are involved in worldly tasks such as riding a stationary bicycle to generate power. This earns Bing Compensation, called Merit, which he can use to pay his needs and needs.

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There are many parts of this that strongly resonate with the contemporary, digital first lifestyle, but let's focus on the functionality of Bing's futuristic world per second. In his daily life, Bing pays for things through fast microtransactions. That money in five merits for toothpaste, and even more to simply skip the ad. In nearly a decade and a half of the output of the episode, the evolution of the Internet, social media and technology has made microtransactions a normal occurrence in everyday life. From playing video games to watching TV to car wash, compensation, costs and cash as a whole have been digitized. The era of cold, claims money has officially resigned to the dust of history.

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Two of the three episodes in season 1 "Black Mirror" were some of the worst predictions of the whole show. While the second episode cope with the microtransing, the short season finale, "the whole history of you", went for a slightly more advanced idea: brain-computer interfaces (BCIS). These are technologies that establish direct paths for communicating with the brain and external devices. In the finals of Season 1, Liam Foxwell (Toby Kabel) lives in a society where most people have a "grain" embedded behind their eyes to record what they see and offer current reproduction.

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Also, the self-attack biotechnoch finds its way into the show in other episodes. For example, the episode of the 3 "Playtest" season has games technology that attaches to the temple and communicates directly with the brain. Technology appears again in later seasons - and now in real life, too.

In early 2025, Elon Musk reported Neuralink's third successful implantation. These computers directly to the brains connect the nerve systems to the machines, allowing individuals to think about the commands that the computer can understand. Although it will be some time before being used to play complex games or shoot everything we see, young people's technology is starting to snow balls, and predictions of the "Black Mirror" have already been realized at all, they can become even more reality before long.

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Often, Black Mirror science is seemingly benign and disturbing worldly. However, every once for a while, he walks from the formula, and in the case of the penultimate episode of Season 4, Metalhead, he goes after a complete suspension thriller. The simple episode follows Bella (Maxin Pique) as she followed it through an apocalyptic landscape by a robotic dog, the task of killing her. Very few of the bigger scenario has been explored, and most of the experience has an audience on the edge of their places, while Bella rages against the machine for its very survival.

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Now, robots and robotics are not really "predicting" in strict sense. When the episode came out in 2017, everyone and their mother knew this was the future. But the look of those robots? Well, that's where things are becoming eerie. There were several robotic repetitions after Metalhead came out that had similarities to the dog "black mirror" doomsday Killer. An example came in August 2022 when the US space forces announced (through Daily mail) that they tested "robots dogs" to help carry out patrols. These were equipped with an antenna, and some versions were tested with a sniper rifle that can shoot nearly 4,000 feet with accuracy. The comparison with the "black mirror" dogs is too strong to ignore. Who would have thought that man's best friend would be the herald of his own apocalypse, right?

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