BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Shanghai BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:CST TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260712T020940Z - 49226@iZuf69e0i0z4ibdboqb33jZ DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260718T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260718T180000 CREATED:20260712T020940Z DESCRIPTION:Watch & Tal k: Black Mirror - Nosedive - Are We Just Numbers On Screens?\nWhat if your personality had a rating? What if every conversation\, every smile\, every awkward moment and every online post could instantly change your soc ial status? And before you dismiss that as science fiction... how differen t is that from the world we're already living in? Join Omar\, Popcorn's te ch expert\, for a Watch & Talk session built around Nosedive\, one of the most iconic episodes of Black Mirror. Together\, we'll watch key scenes an d explore one unsettling question: are we becoming unique individuals\, or simply numbers on a screen? We'll discuss how much of modern life is genu ine and how much is performance\, why likes\, followers and ratings have b ecome social currency\, and how social media has quietly changed the way w e judge others\, and ourselves. Black Mirror has earned a reputation not o nly for being brilliantly written and wildly entertaining\, but for predic ting the future with eerie accuracy. Again and again\, technologies and so cial behaviours that seemed absurd on screen have appeared in real life\, not decades later\, but sometimes within just a few years or even months. Is a real-world social credit score inevitable? Are algorithms already dec iding more about our lives than we'd like to admit? Whether you're fascina ted by technology\, psychology\, philosophy or simply enjoy great storytel ling\, this session is for you. No previous knowledge is needed\, just cur iosity and a willingness to ask one of the biggest questions of the digita l age: are we shaping technology\, or is it quietly shaping us? Let's sit back with good friends in comfy chairs and watch scenes from one of the mo st celebrated and talked-about episodes of one of the most eerily spot-on\ , dark and brilliant shows of this century. And\, of course\, let's have a deep\, smart and fun discussion about our mutual journey! [...] DTSTAMP:20260712T020940Z LOCATION:China\,\, Shanghai SUMMARY:Watch & Talk: Black Mirror - Nosedive - Are We Just Numbers On Scre ens? END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR