Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.
Charlie BrookerI'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.
Charlie BrookerWe take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokรฉmon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, "Oh, okay."
Charlie BrookerI think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.
Charlie BrookerOur four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.
Charlie Brooker