Johannesburg – Imagine Gugu Lourie, Job, technological and politics, South African columnist, known by one to each other Black mirror The episode, its availability depends on the monthly subscription.
It’s not as far as it seems.
Anthology of dystopia Black mirrorCreated by Charlie Brooker, a very technologically representative of our technological society was reflected.
The Seventh season is the goal of the show Subscription-based residenceA reality is already crawling into our daily lives.
For someone like Gugu, an analyzing the intersections of trade and digital life, this room is hit near home.
Subscription trap: a frightening new normal
Subscribers have become a spine of modern capitalism to applications operating from flow services.
What is happening in paywalled in the survival?
Netflix’s black mirrorThe last episode, “ordinary people”, this horror is investigating a woman who is protected by AMANanda, a woman preserved by Medtech.
The subscription, O and her husband, he and his husband, he and his husband exposed the Dehumanizing side of the model of “A-Servis”, husband and husband.
Gugu, a commentator about the African technological boom, can he find himself in a similar dystop?
Imagine that it is locked behind the autonomy overdrawn by corporate algorithms of its premium concepts, paywalls, autonomy.
Is a terrible thinking – but one Black mirror forces us to confront us.
A warning for The digital future of South Africa
South Africa with him Fintech and subscription economy growingnot immune.
Companies grow rental models, cars from cars, and the risk of exploitation.
Gugu’s writing often emphasizes the unequal dynamics in technology, if the next step is the letter human commodity?
The last season of the black mirror in Netflix may not be broken, but the message is urgently: We must resist our comfort.
One thing in a certain thing: even in a world where life is based on life, we have a missing payment for all we are far from disaster.
In Black mirror“Ordinary people” (Season 7), Rivermind turns Amanda to a human advertising board as part of the sketch subscription model.
Here’s how it works:
Rivermindin Amanda’s dark money
- Preliminary Promotion – Rivermind, digitally protects the minds of Amanda, despite the terminal diseases “live”.
- Subscription Pressure – As expenses increase, Amanda’s service level forces it to a compulsory advertisement for compulsory products for random products.
- Hehumaning Fire – Husband Mike, should do humiliating actions on the Livestream platform (Dumdummies) Winning the “luxury” passage – temporary non-advertising moments for Amanda.
- The final horror – advertising was so thin that Amanda begins to emphasize how the corporations combine human suffering, Amanda.
Black mirror inflates, but the main fear – technology turns people into profit streams – it’s already here (for example, information cultural, microtransactions).
Rivermind is only logical.
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* This article was originally published in the publication Techfinancials.co.za
