Generally Black Mirror episodes are not intended to be aspirational.
https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
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> Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
> Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Remove cloud from the equation, replacing it with a properly safeguarded fully owned hardware located on your own premises - basically make it privacy-respecting, minimizing abuse potential, do a proper audit, and it becomes a super desirable system for people with neurological differences (or just stressed folks - attention and memory suffer under the stress too), a glasses that enhance memory rather than vision. Sure, not without caveats and gotchas (don’t bring it to a poker night lol), but not that cyberpunky-bad either.
Also you might not realize how much the hard of hearing, deaf, and other neurodiverse ADHD types would find a memory prosthetic like that very useful unless you are in their very own shoes, for possibly years.
Yet the end too was quite predictable and logical -- frequently destroying those of this species simply because your own life and mind ends up becoming more tempting and destructive than even the most enticing of drugs. One could simply lose themselves in your own memories. What need is there for the rest of your life when you can simply endlessly relive, in perfect clarity, the best moments of your life - ones that you, in many cases, will likely never surpass?
- the science fiction novella "The Rememberers" by A.E. van Vogt, originally published as "The Book of Ptath" in 1943.
- the species known as "Trills" from the "Star Trek" universe, particularly in the series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."
Edit: the first suggestion seems to be a hallucination
Even without perfect memory, this can still happen, especially if something like PTSD is involved. I myself have a dissociative disorder and sometimes it can be difficult not to just relive the past over and over. (It's not like this is a daily struggle, but during low points it comes up.)
Anyway, posting this comment so I remember to send it to her tomorrow.
So there's nothing fundamentally wrong in taking inspiration from sci-fi.
Sure the presented perspective is negative but that is because the producer explored local maximums to the benefit of the audience. They are obliged to paint technology in a certain way to captivate viewers.
Does that mean that the presented reality is the only possible one? Certainly not, that would be reductive.
Many popular technologies today are used to scam a defraud people. Does that mean said technologies are fundamentally bad? Not at all.
I use technology as a force multiplier.
a local model that can analyze the videostream/files and answer questions would be great.