I think that, as societies, we are remarkably good at adjusting to "new normals", but quite bad at reflecting on those changes, especially with so much of media getting swallowed by finance and megacorps. Now, while I would be ever so happy to live in a world where black mirror is the middle of the pack in a rich field of art wrestling with the cavalcading changes happening ever so quickly, it's certainly the most prominent and probably one of the best attempts we have. Thanks for thinking through it with us, folks.

"I've gotten better at it now, but the transition to a hit and miss format was really hard in the beginning. If you're not careful, you spend so much time making the misses that the hits suffer, too. It's a tricky balancing act for sure." - Charlton "Charlie Brooker" Brooker, appearing on the "Keep 'em wanting more" podcast

"Eve Online? No, I can't say I know her." - Charlie Brooker, presumably

"Wouldn't it be crazy if the assumption that most defines your life was just like wrong?" - Charlie Brooker, speaking to Anxious Rumination Magazine

i'm not saying I would do the human 1.1 update but i would certainly trust the unkempt back alley programmer to do it more than i'd trust microsoft

"[...] and in a way, she's all of us: chasing a sexy ghost without ever being quite able to catch up" - Charlie Brooker, interviewed by the Lesbian Review

"But what if Rashomon was... the bad guy?" - Charlie Brooker

i have this pet theory that all advertising is essentially information pollution (they have to say the thing is good so it's always in bad faith) and should be banned, but that the information function of advertisment is needed, but should be replaced by review and product journalism (which should probably be funded by like giving everyone a base budget they can spend on news / reviews)

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Also, boy, I can't believe we made it all the way, and we got to get the skeleton key for our trouble. We talk through all of it, and I think it does kind of come together. Thank you for joining us on the journey.

"Those who can remember the past are condemned to repeat it, sort of like a gif just looping over and over." - George Santaya, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, 1905