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" I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it. "

Charlie Brooker

Thought

Technology

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Never

Long

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Posing

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Your

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