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“Nosedive” tells the story of Lacey, a social girl living in a social world, where everyone has a rating between zero and five that determines a variety of things—like whether they get a job, what kind of car they rent, what events they go to, and even who their friends are. In China, this dystopian world isn’t just a story. that tracks their behavior, and if it’s bad, they can suffer the consequences—like being unable to own pets, not being allowed to travel, or not meeting that dream partner from a dating app that displays users’ social credit scores.

The premise of this episode is not new—, plus spam emails and messages from nefarious characters (to sometimes equally nefarious characters) are just as commonplace. But "Shut Up and Dance" gives us a terrifying look into the future, showing what these vulnerabilities could eventually become.

Keeping children safe is generally a parent's top priority, and some believe that the best way to do this is by tracking your child—something "Arkangel" does by implanting a chip into a kid to track where they are, monitor what they're doing, and pixelate images considered distressing. —it allows a parent to connect a tracking tag to some part of their child's clothing to continually keep tabs on their whereabouts through an app. Thankfully it's no implant, at least not yet—but the idea is not far off; .

What would you do if you could physically experience other peoples' pain? In "Black Museum," the character Dr. Peter Dawson gets a neurological implant allowing him to do so, eventually leading to his character finding pleasure in pain and murdering a homeless man. In real life, —just without an implant. He has a condition called mirror-touch synesthesia, where his brain mimics the symptoms of anyone he sees who is in pain or touching something.

Characters in this episode can rewatch every moment of their lives through implants that record everything they see—which, at first, seems especially helpful in arguments. While the technology usage in the show is crumbling, it's growing in the real world. and take pictures when they blink. All the information is streamed to a smartphone.

Imagine a future world with no real bees, a time when robots are responsible for pollination to keep our crops alive. "Hated in the Nation" tells about swarms of hacked robotic bees that murder people. Harvard has already developed the technology: The —all crime-free, though. 

The carnage in "Crocodile" started relatively simply—with somebody getting hit by a self-driving pizza delivery truck. Starting in 2020, Domino's Pizza . 

Forget controllers, screens, and consoles; "Striking Vipers" allowed players to play using only their brains—which is what , is attempting to emulate (minus the unique relationships). Another difference between "Striking Vipers" and BrainNet? BrainNet allows three simultaneous players.

In this episode, a humanoid robot tries to avoid death. , including ones that learn a person's history through social media and memories so it can emulate them, just like Ash's duplicate in the episode. There are currently chatbots that can mimic people and even . 

Miley Cyrus herself has said that . Ashley O's growing distaste of her pop star lifestyle is a similar path that Cyrus took when she shed her Hannah Montana persona for an edgier version of herself. Granted, no one has tried to put Cyrus into a coma and robotize her voice…yet.