Lineages
“Kurt Vonnegut wrote about TV being like the lead in the water pipes that sent the Romans crazy. But I think social media is currently like that, times ten. It's like LSD in that water supply, going through those lead-filled pipes.”
from Black Mirror
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“a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but.. withdraws all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life… a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees… you look up and you're 85 years old.”
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“If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.”
from Black Mirror
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“‘proper work’ usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.”
from Black Mirror
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“Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutionary leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.”
from Black Mirror
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