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This article is part of a series about season four of Black Mirror, in which Futurism considers the technology pivotal to each episode and evaluates how close we are to having it. Please note that this article contains mild spoilers. Season four of Black Mirror is now available on Netflix.The Headless Guard Dog
Three people prepare for their mission to break into a seemingly abandoned warehouse. They had made a promise to help someone who was dying, to make his final days easier. They seem

Social networks and politics, the still unfulfilled promise of augmented reality, pay-to-play games: what might change in the year aheadBoth of the major smart home platforms have a long-running problem with “discoverability”: it’s very hard to let users know what their devices can do, particularly if they’re always improving thanks to rapid software updates.Users could be rewarded for achieving simple goals in-game; they could then use that money to buy in-game items Con

As advances in gene editing, energy and AI gain momentum, Jim Al-Khalili predicts their impact on our futureMeteorologists can now reliably tell us if it is going to rain tomorrow, but wouldn’t dream of forecasting rain a year from now. Similarly, scientists find it much easier to predict what the world will look like in the next decade rather than in a century. This is because the technology of tomorrow relies on the science of today – it is only after we have understood a certain c