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I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Charlie Brooker

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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.
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You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.
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Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].
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I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.
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I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.
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I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, This room's quite rectangular, isn't it? I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels
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The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.
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Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.
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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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[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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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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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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The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.
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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 can worry about anything.
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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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In summary, our world is doomed.
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