Bibliogr. s. 304-305

The presented article analyzes the contrasts between the ways of introducing the topic of the possible technological development in Black Mirror and Westworld series. The first one shows a modern society in the near future, together with a bitter diagnosis of the influence of technological development on the interpersonal relationships, while Westworl series presents the technology as a final form of entertainment. The picture, inspired by Michael Crichton's film from 1973, is mentioned as an opposition to the critique of the excessive devotion to the devices, clearly visible in the British production. Those two award-winning series depict and extend chosen aspects of cyberpunk iconography and search for the answer to the core cyberpunk questions about the condition of an individual in the modern society. In the presented article the author shows the opposite ways of understanding the technological development in the series - a terrible vision of a future society dominated, programmed and addicted to the technology and the carnivalesque world of joy brought by the perfect androids.