What would you do if you were able to block someone completely out of your life? I don’t mean the normal way where you can just block people from your social media or text messages, but instead block someone from hearing or seeing you ever until you feel like unblocking them. Now I’m betting many of you are thinking that yes you would jump at the idea of blocking someone completely out of your life. Although you might jump at this idea many things can go wrong with this type of technology. For instance it stops you from ever finishing an argument because the other person can just block you instead of having to figure it out. This week in class we had to watch a Black Mirror episode called white Christmas and it had to do with this technology of being able to block someone from your life.

The story starts off with these two guys called Joe and Matt and they start off as co-workers and Matt had been working on the christmas dinner. They had been working with each other for five years at a remote outpost in the middle of nowhere in the snow. They then start talking about for the first time why there even there, with Matt going first talking about how he was helping the shy Harry to seduce the beautiful Jennifer in a party using the Z-Eye implanted in his eyes in an illegal procedure. Harry ends up succeeding going back to her place, but they end up dying from an overdose of some drink she made. Matt ends up deleting all the evidence, but his wife finds out and ends up blocking him, becoming invisible and inaudible to each other. Matt ends up telling Joe his real job for which he works for a company called cookie and this company was capable of making a digital copy of the user. To which Matts job comes in and what he did was force the copy to serve the real user through torture and manipulating time to break any resistance from the copy. Now the reason why Joe was there was because his girlfriend Beth had blocked him over an argument about her not wanting to keep there baby. She ends up leaving, taking the baby with her keeping Joe blocked for years erasing any existence of there life together. He would then travel every year to Beths fathers place during Christmas to see his kid, but one Christmas he finds out that she died and in his heartbreak he decided to finally see his daughter for the first time. When he finally sees her he sees that she is not actually his daughter, but instead one of his girlfriends co workers daughter. In all the agony he goes inside and with the Christmas present he had for his daughter, which was a snow globe. Joe ends up killing Beths dad with the snow globe out of anger leaving the child behind to fend for herself.

What I like about this episode is that it gave in sight to new technology that if they were created could be useful in the future. For instance after Joe killed Beth’s dad he was picked up 5 months later living on the street and they couldn’t get him to talk about what happened. So they tricked him into confessing about the murder with the technology they had. It made me realize that with technology like the chip getting people to confess after they’ve already had there sentence could be a big step in putting other criminals away too. Overall the episode brought fourth many interesting things about this new technology and the affects it could have on people who use it.

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