They're not bad stories, some quite chilling, but they're the sort of stories a hipster/creative from Shoreditch might come up with if they've been reading J.G. Ballard (not as bad as it sounds). And, like all science fiction, it's not really about the future, but about the hopes, dreams, fears and anxieties that we have in the present.
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Black Mirror
Unless you don't watch TV at all, or are just simply not interested, there's a TV series called Black Mirror on Channel 4. It's science fiction of the near future, what Charlie Brooker, who's behind it and writes most of the episodes, calls "the way we might be living in 10 minutes' time if we're clumsy".
They're not bad stories, some quite chilling, but they're the sort of stories a hipster/creative from Shoreditch might come up with if they've been reading J.G. Ballard (not as bad as it sounds). And, like all science fiction, it's not really about the future, but about the hopes, dreams, fears and anxieties that we have in the present.
They're not bad stories, some quite chilling, but they're the sort of stories a hipster/creative from Shoreditch might come up with if they've been reading J.G. Ballard (not as bad as it sounds). And, like all science fiction, it's not really about the future, but about the hopes, dreams, fears and anxieties that we have in the present.
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