On the Black Mirror Season 3 premiere date, we launched Future Mashable: a dark, dystopian version of Mashable, populated with (fictional) articles and essays about the potential dark sides of technological advancement. We created enough content to take over the site for an entire day, with the goal that each piece could conceivably be the jumping-off point for an episode of the series itself.

We used Mashable Velocity, a software that uses predictive analytics to inform content creation. to show how ideas spread from people sharing them. (We were doing fake news before fake news was such a real and frightening thing.)

I wrote a lion’s share of the content, including a few that freaked Netflix out enough that they didn't want to risk running them. Here are a few I worked on that went live:

WUNDERKIND CEO IS CATFISHING BOT'S MOST RECENT VICTIM

LOLITA 2.0: Questions raised about older men's brains installed in young women's bodies

CEO of PRNT3D opens up to 'Mashable' about company's success

Breaking: Hacker vigilante brings down PRNT3D empire after unearthing 'brain harvesting' scandal

Brain transfer tech inspires birthing factories to begin quest for immortality

Game over: How one elite gamer was allegedly brainwashed and forced into combat

5 ways your VR divorce can hit you where it hurts, and how to fight back

TECH GIANT hacks electronic memory recall of president, plans to use as evidence in impeachment case

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