This week was a very interesting one where we covered my favorite episode of Black Mirror which is titled White Christmas. I watched this episode way back when that season came out, but it was very nice to sit down and watch it again. Black Mirror is really good at tying us into the storyline, and making us believe that this has something to do with ur own life. This one I think does a very nice job in doing this because they bring in the family aspect with this episode. I bet a lot of parents could feel the pain of not being able to see their own child like that and a lot of us can relate to not being able to see anyone that you love period because of that blocking machine. I think we might be even closer to reality than we imagine. There has been scientists for years the are working on technological advancements, so I think we have to me somewhat close to this technology where we can block people in real life. I think that it could get real scary real quick with people getting these implants in their heads, and before you know it it could be just as normal as having a smartphone in your pocket.

This can tie into what we read this week where it is a lot easier to break up with people now more than ever. These new features in the app are almost like you are blocking them in real life. this is really good for people that were in an abusive relationship because those can be very hard to over come while you are just seeing their life unfold in front of your eyes on the timeline of your account.

The last thing I am going to talk about is the evolution of the emoji. I really enjoyed this discussion and reading this article because I really didn’t tie together how many of the ideas of emojis might have come from early pre historic pictures that were in a sense emojies. There are many many of these little pictures that pop up on your phone, in fact there is over three thousand of them which you have to choose from, with more and more being brought to the table every day for approval from apple or android. This article was written last year, so some of the things stated were a little off, because they did add red heads to the spectrum of the emoji library. But they are right in saying there are some things that aren’t represented in the library at all. I do think that if the creators of these operating systems such as android and apple would embrace third party companies, which apple is starting to do, they could create wild things that would embody the users that all use their phones. it seems like not a significant change but I think it could make the use more enjoyable for everyone.

My question to you is, did you like this Black Mirror?

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