Recently in class we watched an episode of Black Mirror. The show is about how technology can take over the world essentially. The episode "Hated in the Nation", begins with a journalist. This journalist had recently written about people with disabilities and how they shouldn’t have certain rights or something of the sort. Because of the terrible and hateful article that she wrote, many people in the city began bashing her and giving her hate messages because of how terrible the things she said were. Someone even sent her a cake with the words “Fucking Bitch” written on it. The journalist returned home one night from work and while walking back to her house, people on the streets were chanting at her and calling her things like “whore” and “slut”. She gets home and opens up her laptop to go on twitter and sees countless mentions of people tagging her with a hashtag that says “#DeathTo”. People would use that hashtag and then tag her after and it started trending. The same night, police were called to her house because she had committed suicide. The husband of the journalist had walked in to go talk to her, but she was clawing at her own throat, ripping her skin apart. The husband tried to stop her, but she resisted and even stabbed her husband in the torso. She then slit her own throat, and everyone was confused as to why she did that.
Investigators started looking into the situation and thought that she did it because of all the hate she was getting but then found out that it actually had to do with the hashtag about her posted on social media. They had found a bot account on social media that posted a video saying every day someone would die, and it would always be whoever had the hashtag put with their name the most. The journalist had the most hashtags that day and because of it she died. You might be wondering how did someone kill her if she committed suicide? Currently in the time period in this episode, technology is very advanced and there was a company who created these electronic bees to go and pollenate the country. As it turns out, the security system was not good enough and one man found out how to hack the bees. Whenever the end of the day would come, and it was time for someone to die, the man would hack the nearest bee to that person and send it into their brain. The bee would dig a whole in the brain, causing the person to have seizure-like attacks and die on the spot. Eventually hundreds of thousands of people ended up dying and it leaves the viewers with the question, is it worth advancing technology that far in the future? I personally don’t think that it’s ever possible for something that crazy to happen. I think that humans are smart enough and have the morals to prevent a tragic event from something like that happening. I don’t ever think we will ever be able to make electronic bees that serve the same purpose as bees but if it ever does happen it will be very far in the future.
Ian Ransonet
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