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This article takes the TV Series Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker) as a starting point to reflect critically on the pathological effects of new digital technologies on new generations of users and abusers.
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While technological progress leads to digital innovations, the effect of new technologies can also generate a form of regress for human users: from hypnotic states of dispossession to second lives in parallel worlds, this article urges us to pay attention to the ways new technologies are currently changing human behavior.
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Black Mirror is a mesmerizing TV series but also sets up a mirror to reflect on what we are becoming. This article urges us to look in the mirror and see if we recognize ourselves...
Nidesh Lawtoo
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This page is a summary of: Black Mirrors, Philosophy Today, January 2021, Philosophy Documentation Center,
DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2021517406.
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