Of course Netflix purchased it, and it hasn't been quite as good since. But, that's not the point here. The point is that one episode showed a society where everyone was rated based on their interactions, etc, and received a sort of "social score".
Well, that appears to be starting for real in China: Would you choose a partner based on their 'citizen score'?
Crazy to think that things like this could be our "new normal" in just a few years.Imagine if everything you did on Facebook or Twitter counted towards a government-imposed 'citizen score'.
All your online behaviour would be analysed and assessed to come up with a measure of your online reputation, character and trustworthiness.
This could then be used by employers to decide whether to offer you a job, by banks to decide whether to give you a loan, or even by prospective partners.
Well, China is planning something like this called the Social Credit System. Details are sketchy at this stage but it is due to be up and running by 2020.
China's "Great Firewall" - it's internet censorship programme - already controls access to many Western news websites, as well as Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. But anything its 1.4 billion citizens say or do on the country's hugely popular alternative social media sites, WeChat and QQ, could soon affect their Social Credit System rating.