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Don’t trust technology

Photo: Laurie Sparham/Netflix
Photo: Laurie Sparham/Netflix

Obviously! This is Black Mirror we’re talking about! Every episode famously digs into some variation on this theme— “Never trust a guy in tech,” season four episode “Black Museum” flat-out warns us—so there are many examples to choose from. Season three’s “Hated in the Nation,” a sort of high-tech creature feature, imagines robotic bees engineered to mimic endangered bees are suddenly hacked and deployed as tiny assassins, guided to their next target by a hashtag threatening “DeathTo” people who’ve racked up notoriety online.