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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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[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'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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Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.
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In summary, our world is doomed.
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One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
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I can worry about anything.
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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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Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.
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Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.
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I would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of nuclear war. I was born in 1971, and in the '80s I came to understand that I was inevitably going to be frazzled to death in the nuclear apocalypse.
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Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.
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Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.
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My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.
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I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.
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I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.
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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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My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.
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While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.
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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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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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