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278 - Gregg Hurwitz - New Think

The Symbolic World

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You're Not Showing a Dystopian Future

I think it's interesting, especially because like you said, you'd almost don't have to show a dystopian future. You're basically representing something which is happening now. And you are just framing it through narrative in order for people to be able to see it differently. In some ways, it's different from Black Mirror even because Black Mirror, they've been very prescient. Like they kind of just look that one step ahead and they've been pretty good at it. But you're just showing us the reality now. That's right. I mean, the first story is called the screens. And I spell it with a K so that it sounds science fictiony, but it's screens

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