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Black Mirror, The Every, and other mixed attempts to critique The Machine

The first script Charlie Brooker wrote for Black Mirror was “Fifteen Million Merits,” an episode that imagined, “What if our Orwellian future ran on Apple software?” In it, Daniel Kaluuya plays a prisoner whose life of meaningless toil is broken up with bouts of entertainment and pornography via screens in his cell. The only possible escape is winning a…