What really is “Nubbin”, the new chip for memory: are we ready for such a technological future?

I fail your conscience, doing resurface memories. It is not clear if Nubbin Be exactly what we want in our future, but it is certain that many would already want to buy it all right.

Fortunately, however, Nobbin – a super technological device that would apply on a temple to give you powers in your mind, literally – is just a gimmick of marketingsupported by influencers around the world and confirmation of a fact: technology is going very far away, among our lives almost completely online and new extravagant inventions that are sold to us on alternate days. And we struggle to distinguish reality.

In short, social networks have been invaded for days from videos in which the influencers in trance after placing the device on the side of the head. Their eyes emptied and the gaze is in total void. So: we are sure that a new “cerebral chip“For the care of memory” is it just what we would like to arrive? Would we like?

It is the doubt before which the new season of Black Mirror and his advertising campaign places us. Yes, because the “Nubbin” chip created by Tckr Systems and which allows you to “enter the virtual consciousness” is found only in the fantasy of the seventh season of the most dystopian series ever.

The perfect reality? It’s all in your head. The reality is boring. It’s time for something better, we read on their website.

Is Black Mirror’s Nubbin technology real?

In a word: no. Nubbin and the Tckr Systems are inventions, fruit of the creative (and somewhat disturbing) mind of the authors of Black Mirror. But it would be naive to stop here.

Because what really leaves us a bitter aftertaste – and perhaps even a little fear – is the fact that, season after season, Black Mirror He manages to hit us not for what is invented, but for what he looks terribly resembles us.

Even when we seem to attend surreal scenarios, absurd, light years away from reality … Here the world outside surprises us, shortens the distances, transforms. And we find ourselves living – albeit in different forms – the same concerns and the same questions.

Why Black Mirror He does not speak as much about the future, as of us. And of the present that, silently, is transforming themselves before our eyes.