There’s Always Enough Nightmare Fuel to Power the Black Mirror Universe

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Spoilers follow for all of Black Mirror season seven.

There’s something striking about how Black Mirror, which primarily fixates on near-futuristic tech conceits as a lens through which to unpack human anxieties, has effectively spanned the length of our collective curdling relationship with technology. When the series started in 2011, social media and iPhones were thought to be bright symbols of positive futurism; today, they have wholly consumed us. In many ways...