IMO this article is confusing cause and effect. Black Mirror exists because the tech developments of the last 20 years are seen as social negatives. It's hard to disagree. Our top tech talent has been engaged in the zero-sum game of the war for attention, of which each person only has a maximum of 24 hours to give. There is no expansion of the possibility space, only competition for a fixed resource that doesn't seem to further the goals of mankind (by any religion or value system's definition.)