Black Mirror is a show, a museum, a prison, a work of art and a video game without discontinuity between the exterior and the interior, the self and the other, the organic and the inorganic. This is the world we inhabit, where technology, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and social media prevail over individuals, annihilating the autonomy and rationality on which modern culture was founded. The society of the future that the British series describes with somber and visionary premonitions expresses in a paroxysmal way what we are already experiencing: dystopia in our daily lives. It is science fiction more real than reality. An in-depth examination of it allows us not only to glimpse the catastrophic nature of our time, but above all to understand what is rising from the ashes of humanism and the West: trolling, sexting, revenge porn, cancel culture, predictive analytics, and the substitutes for the human. We are at the heart of tragedy, but something resists, is born and proliferates among the fragments of the past. Like it or not, Charlie Brooker's creature, a true total work of our time, reveals the first glimmers of the digital dawn.