Smartphones, Guns, and Black Mirror: The Shaping of Our Technology
Like Daly in the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister,” guns and technology allow us to imagine a world in which we call the shots.

Like Daly in the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister,” guns and technology allow us to imagine a world in which we call the shots.

We don’t just need this world to be improved; we need to see it broken and remade.

The guys try to balance out their emotions in the cold, dark days of January by reviewing an uplifting musical (The Greatest Showman) and a TV show (Black Mirror) about how technology will destroy us all!

Tyler and Drew chat with Matthew Loftus about Black Mirror, technology, and the darkness of our hearts from his recent article “Nothing is New Under the Black Mirror.”

If you need a cinematic gut punch, Black Mirror could be helpful.

The guys sit down to discuss Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson’s film about Christian pacifist Desmond Doss’s experiences as an army medic in World War II.
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