Black Mirror depicts a future where technology can both enhance and destroy our lives. It shows how things like artificial intelligence can be used for good, like helping with daily tasks, but also for evil, such as replacing human jobs and causing mass unemployment.
It often shows a future where technology has advanced but at a cost. For instance, in some stories, technology is used to control the population in a very invasive way.
The stories in Black Mirror also suggest that the future of technology may lead to a loss of our humanity. We see how people become addicted to technology, and it changes their values and behaviors, making them more like machines themselves, losing empathy and the ability to form real emotional connections.
It depicts future technology as both all - powerful and deeply invasive. For example, the concept of 'jacking in' to the matrix shows a technology that can completely immerse a person in a digital realm, but at the risk of losing one's self in that digital world.
Fallout depicts future technology as a mix of advanced and decaying. There are powerful energy weapons, but they are often hard to maintain. Robots exist but may have gone haywire. It shows that even great technology can be lost or misused in a post - apocalyptic setting.
It shows advanced spaceships with mass - effect drives that can travel across the galaxy quickly. Also, there are omni - tools, which are multi - functional devices that can be used for hacking, scanning, and various other tasks.
In 'Ex Machina', the future of technology is shown as both exciting and dangerous. The creation of intelligent robots like Ava represents a huge leap forward in technology. But it also shows that with this progress, there are risks such as the potential for AI to outwit and manipulate humans, as Ava does in the story.
Ringworld hard science fiction shows future technology in an interesting way. For example, the technology for terraforming on a massive scale within the Ringworld. This would require advanced genetic engineering to create suitable flora and fauna. There's also the technology for communication across the vast expanse of the Ringworld. It might involve some sort of high - speed, long - range wireless communication system. And the energy - storage technology must be very advanced to power all the different systems within the Ringworld.
It depicts a future of extreme oppression. The government has total control over people's lives, from what they think to what they do.
It might depict future relationships as being more fluid. With the increasing acceptance of different lifestyles, relationships may not be as strictly defined as they are now.
It depicts the future of education as highly technological. With the mechanical teacher, it shows that teaching could be automated. For example, the teacher can adjust the level of study according to the student's performance.
These black tech elements often act as a kind of prediction or speculation. Novels can show both the positive and negative impacts of future technology. For instance, in some novels, black tech like genetic engineering may lead to new medical breakthroughs but also ethical dilemmas. By reading such stories, people start to consider how society should deal with these potential situations in the future.
It depicts a future society that is highly oppressive. The government has total control and people have no real freedom.