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Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker says tech isn’t our problem - it’s us

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The Rise and Fall of Soylent Green

I remember that was the thing in a way I was tapping into in my head in some of those early episodes, it launched against the backdrop for me. It looked to me like, have you seen Soylent Green? Of course. There's a bit where somebody is euthanized and he's taken into a sort of euthanasia clinic and shown, the last thing he's shown is images of the natural world which has now been destroyed. And it sort of moves him to tears and then he's like killed and turned into food, basically. All I remember is Charlton Heston at the end, Frank. Right.

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