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Is Black Mirror Right about Our Future?

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Dia Parker

Nov 08, 2016

Oglethorpe University

Is a portion of our humanity lost as we give our time to screens?

The third season of Black Mirror has me rethinking my past view of technology. It seems that for every decent, wholesome, or good thing which technology has brought us, it has brought us just as many indecent, injurious, and evil things. Lately, I've been considering what that could mean in terms of our future or our daily life. As such, this is a poem on social media and the flow of daily life that I wrote June of last year. The title is meant to possess a double negative indicating that all our knowledge, in a colloquial sense, is typically derived from Wikipedia, the website I chose to represent to represent the World Wide Web.

We Don’t Know Nothing if it’s Not on Wikipedia

That’s perfect
Freeze frame
SnapChat
Snap that
Instagram
Check me out Facebook
Follow me on Twitter

Remember the time

Unforgettable
No, but, really, we cannot forget
The dead haunt us with unused Facebook pages; walls full of R.I.P.
We are not what we eat
We’re just texts, DMs and tweets
BUT FIRST LET ME TAKE A SELFIE
That’s who we want to be
That cool confident peacock that we are when we take a selfie
When really, it' s #NotFeelinMyselfToday
And we need a couple no name's to ❤ our picture, emoji with heart eyes in the comments like

Eternity
Like needing you
When we aren't even #Friends yet

No day fades away
It’s all just one scroll away
A quick review of a year or two in a matter of minutes

Is it okay?
OkCupid
Don’t play stupid
Not dumb
I know y’all met online
Rewind, fast forward, we wooing honeys with Spotify playlists; syncing our iTunes library no need to exchange numbers

Maybe, I’m just old fashioned
O maybe, I’m afraid that when I look back on my MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram it’ll show me just how bored twisted and lonely I truly am…

As the pathway to knowledge becomes less and less book based how will this change our future, our government, and our daily interactions? I am not sure.

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Don't freak out

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