‘It’s not moral panic, it’s reality’: Todd Sampson documentary interrogates internet’s toxic influence
by Amanda Meade from Technology | The Guardian on (#64HVN)
In Mirror Mirror, the former advertising executive argues technology is an unregulated psychological experiment that is changing our brains
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Todd Sampson's documentary about how the internet is a giant, unregulated psychological experiment that is changing us is not alarmist, it's just reality, the former advertising executive says.
In his two-part film, Mirror Mirror: Love & Hate, Sampson shows us first hand the mind-altering power of technology; a technology so intoxicating children choose the online world over the real world and a grown man falls in love with a customised chatbot.
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