After watching the episode San Junipero and The entire history of you, I felt very nervous and uncomfortable. In these episodes, the technology seems like a disaster to me. For San Junipero, it is saying that we are capable of programming ourselves inside an imaginary world, where we can live forever. It sounds like a really good idea. However, as we know, every program has a limited memory, if everyone chooses to go to that imaginary world, that world will be overpopulated soon.  Also, what if people use that as a kind of weapon? Some people might “store” people they don’t like inside the world, that basically “kills” that person indirectly. Since if you are inside the program, you do not have conscious in the real world. On the other hand, San Junipero does portray a good relationship, even though I do not like the technology inside it. At the end, Kelly chooses to be pass over, so when she passes away, she can live with Yorkie afterlife. However, while in the story, Kelly states that she doesn’t want to be pass over, because she doesn’t want to live in a world without her daughter and her husband, but she still does it at the end. This makes me think that Kelly loves Yorkie a lot and Yorkie makes her know and accept that she loves women as well as men. It is a very good ending. Those two people finally accept themselves as a homosexual person and live as a homosexual person. I feel proud about them.

For the entire history of you, I have actually no positive feelings towards it (it’s a good episode don’t get me wrong) I can’t really accept the story or the technology inside it. I just can’t imagine a world where people can rewind their memories and store them permanently. While it might be a good thing for test takers or someone who is bad at memories, it is awful. People’s brain is designed in a way, so we can forget things- usually those unhappy events.  However, this technology stores every details, which means you can’t really get over when a really bad things happen on you. Just like in the story, Liam keeps thinking about his wife is having an affair with another man and he keeps focusing on that to a point that it is affecting his life or almost makes him a criminal because he threatens Jonas to delete his memory with Ffion. However, I do feel lucky for Liam that at the end he finally finds out the relationship between Ffion and Jonas, otherwise Ffion and Jonas might keep doing their things in the future. I feel both Ffion and Jonas are piece of garbage since they know doing so will destroy a family, they still do it. Poor Liam. Overall, I do not like this technology. It makes possible that people can read your memories at anytime. This is terrible, since we want to keep some of our memories as secret.  

Technology is a good way to boost the communication of people. Both technology in both episodes boost the relationship.  Because of the program, dead people or elderly people can communicate with each other. Because of the permanent memory, people are likely to have more topic to talk about while they are on a party since they can just recall their memory.  However, too much of that might cause troubles. Liam became crazy because of that program because he paid too much attention on everything and people in San Junipero basically is having sex with each other, they don’t really have a good relationship with each other.

I got a look at what life would look like if individuals were held to a rating framework. Individuals frequently run over via web-based networking media as though everything is perfect in their life and you regularly don’t see the genuine them. I trust internet based life likewise prompts less important in personal connections in an individual’s life. Personally I have had actual encounters with “friends” who are always posting up on how great of a life they have and how they are always happy, and going out to new places. However they are actually the complete opposite if you were to see them in person. They are sad deep down and feel this emptiness that they try to fill this void with making people believe that they are “perfect”. Social media is a scary place and I would not want to live a life trying to please everyone around me and never being genuinely happy. In Nosedive individuals are giving a rating somewhere in the range of 1 and 5 dependent on your appearance as well as communications. This clearly makes a few people need to live as they do via web-based networking media, so they seem to be great and get 5-star evaluations. Individuals with scores more than 4 are viewed positively and are even qualified for advantages that others aren’t. I was anxious while watching this episode and figured something like this could be conceivable later on. Individuals are progressively getting to be fixated on games and social media frameworks that they can see satisfying feedback  from. On the off chance, everything else is held to a rating why not people? The main issue is who might speak to themselves honestly. Everybody would act counterfeit day in and day out and uneasiness and dejection would almost certainly be through the roof. It was particularly intriguing when the primary character saw what her life could look like if her rating was sufficiently high and she had the capacity to get the condo she needed. It completely assumed control over her life and she wound up fixated on hitting the 5 star point.

In the Black Mirror episode entitled Nosedive we learn of an alternate society where individuals are rated off of every encounter they have with one another. People are allowed to rate you up to five stars and each rating contributes to your overall score. This, in turn, contributes to how people treat you, as higher rated individuals are prioritized and reap more benefits. In this episode, Lacie Pound is a people pleaser who has made her life revolved around trying to achieve a high rating. Currently, her eagerness to increase her rate is higher than usual because she has to move and the place she wants requires a rating above 4.5 for a 20% discount. She finds an opportunity where she can increase her score fast, by attending an old friend’s wedding where the guest list is filled with high ranking individuals. In the end, through many tribulations, her score ends up being lower than it’s ever been and she realizes the unimportance of the ranking system.

Watching this episode related so much to today’s society, where everyone does what they think will get the most likes or friends. The common saying “Do it for the gram,” exhibits how people will make careless decisions just to get a laugh from others. People’s perception of you has become more important to society than your own personal happiness. I even fall into this category as online I tend to be more careful with what I post, in fear of others judging me. Whether it be making sure I post pictures that are “Instagram worthy” or that do not show my imperfections. Watching this episode was in a way sad and made me feel empathy for the people who feel as though they need to liked by everyone in order to be happy with their self.