New Delhi, April 30 -- Imagine if your brain started serving targeted ads to people around you, the way your phone dishes them out to you when you're browsing online. In Common People, the Season 7 premiere episode of Netflix's dystopian series Black Mirror, Amanda (Rashida Jones), a schoolteacher, undergoes surgery to replace her inoperable brain tumour with synthetic tissue connected to a tech company's cloud server. The procedure saves her life, but there is a catch. Stuck on its cheapest subscription plan, Amanda starts spouting ads mid-conversation without realising it. She pushes a snack brand to her students in class, recommends a religion-based counselling site to one of them, promotes a dating service to a senior colleague, and s...
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