Charlie Brooker

People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online. ”

There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people. ”

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it. ”

Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink. ”

Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler. ”

I'm not anti-technology at all, really. ”

It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left. ”

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel. ”

I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is. ”

I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process. ”