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I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.

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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.
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I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, Well, there is one other idea [National Anthem].
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[The rumor that David Cameron maybe once did this unspeakable thing with a pig's head] it was freakish and weird. It seemed such a coincidence that I couldn't quite process it. And then, as it sank in, I genuinely had the thought, Am I living in a Truman Show sort of VR simulation designed to send me insane?
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I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.
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I've always had a bad attention span.
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That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.
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[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!
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As long as we've still got crazy what if ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.
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What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.
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Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.
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My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.
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I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.
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In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.
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What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six stories this time around, so you don't want it to just be the devastating, bleak-em-up.
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We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, Oh, okay.
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If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?
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On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.
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In summary, our world is doomed.
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Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.
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Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.
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