Black Mirror Season 5: dishwashers, sex stuff, and brain image reconstruction
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Striking Vipers
Human sexuality
The bright and exciting future of who does what with whom and how. Polar bears. How we might have handles this VR technology as teenagers.
Colbert is the bear
Gaming
Nostalgia for days-long gaming binges with Doritos and Easy Cheese. Ubiquitous full-spectrum VR experience. Neural mapping. Popular physics plugins , game engines, and the possibility that McCallister and Striking Vipers etc run on the same software.
Bodily bacteria
Dirt subscription boxes. Maintaining your skin microbiome. Showring? Soap vs detergent. Probiotic yogurt: “one for me, one for the undercarriage.”
Dishwashers
Knife-down safety is actually important(!). Dish detergents and plate dirtiness. Clever dirtiness-measurement technologies.
Smithereens
Driver Rating
“2 stars, car was clean”
Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too
Virtual performance
Virtualizing irl performers. Pepper’s Ghost. Lifelike real-time rendering technology. Real-time raytracing. Motion capture cost and complexity drops.
Brains etc
Machine learning vocal production. FMRI vs EEG vs whatever awesome thing they have in Black Mirror. Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity.
Links
Black Mirror Season 5: Netflix
Head Like a Hole by Devo: YouTube
Human brain mapping and brain decoding by Jack Gallant: YouTube
Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity: PLOS
