Cambridge Analytica, John Oliver noted in a Last Week Tonight monologue last season, is not the Latin, scientific name for John Oliver, sadly. Would that it was...

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'BLACK MIRROR' CONTINUES TO RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, REFLECTING THE BEST — AND WORST — SIDES OF OUR NATURE By Alex Strachan

For all the different ways Black Mirror depicts its dystopian worlds...one theme keeps emerging: For all technology’s advances, and some of them are truly astonishing, those advances always bring with them unintended consequences...

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