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When I started playing Shadowrun in the 90s, I thought neural implants were cool and I wanted to get one. Around the time Google started buying up ad companies, I realized that the hardware in my head would never be mine. But yes, I think Black Mirror has done an excellent job with these topics.

In the '90s I was ready to jack in. More computers, and getting me closer to them? Awesome.

By the 20-teens I was repulsed by the idea and kinda hated computers.

Today if you put a magic button in front of me that'd permanently un-invent the Internet, good odds I'd press it.

This was a throwaway line in the 1995 novel The Diamond Age. The thug knew a guy who had a spinal implant(?) which got hacked and now the guy saw ads across the bottom of his vision for life.

Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)

Oh, I love that show! So many brilliant, disruptive ideas

Futurama too (The Eye-Phone, or something).

It's the plot of many a dystopian scifi story.

Correct, but they stylized it as "eyePhone" (from MomCorp, the all powerful, caring conglomerate), and that episode is the origin of the famous "Shut up and take my money!" meme.