5 Times Black Mirror Came True

5. Simulated Personality

The opening episode of season two imagines a life where we could (kind of) bring back the dead, and it focuses on couple Ash and Martha. The two live together and are seemingly going steady.

Everything changes for Martha when Ash is suddenly killed in a car crash. Unable to deal with the loss, Martha uses a new technology that can simulate anybody's personality based off their social media profiles. With this technology Martha can text Ash, talk with him on the phone, and eventually even gets a replacement Ash that has been installed into a new body. Healthy.

We might not be at the stage of bringing back the dead just yet, but companies like Crystal are starting to get the hang of it. Crystal is a company that can help you tailor emails, conversations and interactions with people based off of their readily available online data.

If that's not scary enough, people are now using machine learning to superimpose anyone's face on to other people's bodies in pornographic videos. No thanks.