My original summary and analysis is as follows:
Postman’s ideas relate to Black Mirror when it comes to technology being a friend. Very rarely do these episodes start as technology being the enemy. What Black Mirror shows is that technology only becomes the enemy when humans emotions, instinct, and actions corrupt it. I really like what Postman said, “Our relationship with technology isn’t black or white; it is black and white.” I think that Black Mirror reflects this very well. The show is very complex when it comes to the world building of a real or virtual world, as well as building relationships of the human characters to allow the audience to fully grasp the situation and sort of live through it with the characters.
How can I make this a better summary and relate the technopoly ideas with Black Mirror.
At this point I submitted it through Dr. Oblivion and asked how I can make this better. Here is his response:
From this feedback I think that a parallel from the show to Postman’s ideas are in Chapter 5: The Broken Defenses, Postman says “False or misleading information on the internet has become a rule, and can often out-perform more reliable sources.”. I see this in everyday life currently but in Black Mirror the technology is more advanced and in some cases have a mind on its own. In Season 5 Episode 3: Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too, it features a robot who it, itself is gaslit by her makers. The robot Ashley Too is a doll that was made with the musical conscience of a pop star and when the robot learns this it starts to malfunction and breakdown. If misleading information, or gaslighting is taking robots down or in theory don’t have a conscience then why are we, humans, expected to deal with it everyday and just know what is or is not fake news.