Am I living in a simulation?

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.

Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.

I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!