Revisiting the Terrifying Prescience of “Black Mirror: Nosedive”

Fade In: A World Gone Social Media Mad.

Imagine if you will a form of mass surveillance, one that permanently grades your reputation based on everything from your day-to-day social interaction to playing loud music in public, jumping a red light, or not showing up for a hotel reservation.

This is no pitch for a new “Twilight Zone” episode. This is real life.

Developed in 2014 by the Chinese government, the Death Star that is shehui xinyong tixi — in English, the Social Credit System — is set to be fully operational in 2020 to nationally standardize grades of social reputation and devolve the concept of privacy into a thing of the past.

“But wait!” you may say. I live in the good ol’ U.S.A. Surely, this stuff can never happen here.

Read this, and weep: https://katusaresearch.com/chinas-social-credit-system-coming-to-united-states/

“Black Mirror”

Charlie Brooker, the genius behind the Netflix series “Black Mirror,” was certainly up on technological trends, and the first episode of Series Three, titled “Nosedive,”…