4/5THS OF US LOOOOOVE IT

Season Four of Black Mirror, the Emmy-award-winning Netflix hit, comes out December 29th, aka soon! The perfect time to revisit one of my favorite interviews all year, with show creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.

Maybe you've never seen Black Mirror. That's okay. Because their fiction seems to keep manifesting in reality.  Stories about preserving dead loved ones through AI. Social scoring and ranking. Hacking personal details for extortion. I asked them how it feels to basically predict the future. And Charlie said he doesn’t. He just has a sarcastic vision of the present.

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A VERY SERIOUS BOREDOM GIFT GUIDE
 

• Glass Pot. You can literally watch water boil. A splurge for the overstimulated design fetishist. 
• Tea kettle. For the classic type, your friend with a buzzing mind and a shelf full of teas. 
• Turf. For the over-achiever in your life. This stuff never grows, but they can still watch for it. Guaranteed boredom, forever.

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