2016, Penn Jillette, Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Magically Disappear and Other Magical Tales[1], page 11:
Dr. Daniel Kahneman, big fancy-ass Nobel guy, explains that he imagines us as having an experiencing self and a remembering self. The experiencing self gets all the pleasure and the pain in real time, and the remembering self makes all the decisions. So whether you get fucked in a good way or a bad way, it’s the experiencing self that will feel it and the remembering self that decides whether you do it again. Doctors know that only the remembering self is able to sue, so their strategy is to fuck the experiencing guy and play to the remembering one. That’s just Black Mirror creepy.
2017 February 20, Errol Kerr, “The new tech buzz”, in Courier[2], page 30:
Today, in your weekly dose of Errol screaming excitedly over scientific advancement, we have robotic bees coming straight out of Black Mirror and into our very realities.
2017 August, Ray McMillin, “EroticCity”, in Exotic Magazine[3], number 290, page 30:
The more think about it, I'd spend far more money on watching a semi-celebrity eat his own penis on television. Yes, I know we don't live in a Black Mirror world yet, but this is as close as it's gonna get for some time.
2018, Katie Russell, “Where Should You Start A Business From?”, in Be Your Own Boss[4], page 13:
It sounds like something out of Black Mirror, but a virtual office allows you to rent a prestigious business address, without paying for the actual space.
2018 November, Amie Danielle Dansby, quotee, “HackSpace magazine meets...AmieDD”, in HackSpace[5], number 12, page 54:
Right, and there's a whole bunch of stuff that's Black Mirror about body hacking.
2018 November 30, Savannah Ngyuen, “Chinese Artificial Intelligence Raise Questions About Misuse”, in The Appalachian[6], page 12:
Some may see this historic event as a scene straight out of "Black Mirror," choosing to envision the presence of these new avatars as the foreshadowing of mankind's inevitable demise.
2018 December, Jaya Shrivastava, “A walk down Call History Lane”, in The Baton[7], volume 1, number 1, page 75:
Though it sounds fearsome to some to contemplate, we might also be headed toward a “Black Mirror” future in which mobile technology is directly implanted in the body via chips and pellets.
2019 February 22, Beth Sullivan, “Get Chipped (or Don't) at BDYHAX”, in The Austin Chronicle[8], volume 38, number 26, page 42:
Implantable technology, self-surgery, nootropics. ... Are we not in Black Mirror?
2019 March 8, Morgana Chess, “Addicted to Netflix?”, in Redbrick[9], volume 83, number 1504, page 25:
Cary Fukanaga, the creator of Netflix's Maniac, describes how certain creative decisions from the writing-room were squashed in response to evidence from big data; 'The algorithm's argument is gonna win at the end of the day'. Will this make everything same-y? Will we get caught in a cycle of churning out the same old ideas whilst neglecting creative human minds? How very Black Mirror.
2019 May, Claire Dukes, “Swindon Fringe Festival: News and reviews”, in Swindon Link[10], number 20, page 24:
This one-woman show left me with great affliction, because it depicted a grossly accurate representation of how our society is in bed with social media - how our Instagram status is basically modern-day currency (all very Black Mirror).
2019 July 24, Jonti Ridley, “SAE Open Day”, in Beat[11], number 1679, page 58:
Although this form of tech seems like something out of Black Mirror, it's very much becoming part of our reality.
2019 October, Min Chen, quoting Greg Lutze, “Never In Short Supply”, in Jumpstart[12], number 27, page 81:
I don't think mobile photography will actually exist. I think we'll probably have some sort of contact lens or implant in our eye that is constantly downloading information, capturing it in video format, and saving it to some cloud. It's very Black Mirror.
"Okay, Debbie. Reminder set," her in-home robot says back. Oh, that Alexa. While I would need Casey to confirm, this certainly feels like an episode of Black Mirror.
2020, Alithea C. Soriano, “Message from the editor”, in The Guidon[14], page 4:
We are stepping into a reality that feels like an episode straight out of Black Mirror (2011).
2020, Ruby Wait-Weguelin, “Voyeurism and the fantasy 'migrant crisis'”, in The Gryphon[15], page 10:
The cyclical nature of migrant moral panic has once again reared its ugly head - this time the script was seemingly straight out of Black Mirror season 6.
2020 October, “The Internet of Everything, and how the next generation of robots and drones will police Smart Cities”, in The Light[16], page 12:
Home to the Black Mirror-like ‘Social Credit System’, facial recognition cameras that catch you jaywalking, kidnapping and jailing by police if you criticize the government and police, many citizens of large cities in China have been softly conditioned to accept digital dystopian levels of societal control.
Nothing is more important now than a New Ecology of Schooling if the West Indies is to find its place in the Black Mirror future that COVID-19 has rushed into being.
2021, Arwa Mahdawi, Strong Female Lead: Lessons From Women In Power[18], unnumbered page:
One thing we need to do to avoid a Black Mirror future, for example, is ensure that the people building the technology that governs our lives are bringing in and listening to lots of different sorts of people with different life experiences.
2021, Ben Burmeister, “The Map Is Now The Territory: Augmented Reality Meet the Environment”, in Perennial[19], number 4, page 18:
"There's still a big public fear... when you talk about AR, there's this perception that thinks 'I'm going to see ads everywhere'... or some horrifying Black Mirror future," said Dean. "It doesn't have to be like that. We can do things with this."
2022, Steven Wilson, Mick Wall, Limited Edition of One[20], unnumbered page:
When things like Brexit and President Donald Trump actually come to pass, it seems like we're living in an episode of Black Mirror.
2022, Jack Linchuan Qiu, “Data Power and Counter-power with Chinese Characteristics”, in Andreas Hepp, Juliane Jarke, Leif Kramp, editors, New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies - The Ambivalences of Data Power[21], page 27:
For some, China is fetishised as the ultimate “Black Mirror” writ large with one-fifth of the world’s population being subjugated as if they are 1.4 billion guinea pigs being captured in a gigantic panoptic lab (Roberts, 2020; Strittmatter, 2020).
2022 December, Louis Beneventi, “Look Up”, in Essential Journal[22], number 67, page 91:
This might read like Black Mirror, or 1984, and that's because we're going that way.
2023 May 13, “Listen: Podcasts”, in RadioTimes[23], page 110:
Young vulnerable people are buying poison to end their lives. If this sounds like something out of Black Mirror or a particularly gruesome Nordic noir, it is sadly all true.
2023 May 26, Glenda Bartosh, “Good grief that's a great dessert!”, in Pique Newsmagazine[24], volume 30, number 21, page 32:
Sounds like living in a hippie communal house in Kitsilano or Soo Valley to me, or at least an antidote to today's stressed-out, black mirror world.
2023 October 2, Anuraag Kumar Nair, “Food solutions for a buzzworthy future”, in The Varsity[25], volume CXLIV, number 5, page 17:
Perhaps it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that in a few short decades, the vegetables in your burrito bowl from the local Chipotle could be sourced from an indoor farm down the black the size of a skyscraper, aided by tens of thousands of tiny, drone-like robotic bees. Sounds like something straight out of Black Mirror, doesn't it?
2025, Lex Paulson, quoting Cristiano Ferri, “Concluding Dialogue: Collective intelligence and democracy, today and tomorrow”, in Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, Lex Paulson, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance[26], page 509:
In my opinion it’s very possible that several “futures of democracy” will exist side by side. Some will look like “Black Mirror” situations, with techno-feudalism methods applied by governments and corporations to manipulate and control people.
