Mickey17, Severance, and the Fight for Our Humanity in a Machine World
From AI anxiety to hustle culture, we’re all being optimized to death. But Mickey17 offers a radical answer to techno-dystopia: love, chaos, and the irrationality that makes us human.
Sometimes, sci-fi hits a little too squarely on the nose, right?
Remember when Black Mirror was fun and creepily titillating—until about 2016 when reality caught up with the show a little too hard and fast? Suddenly, its dystopian visions of meme-based politics, AI-sex weirdness, social media ranking systems, and the gamification of human relationships d…
