With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
From Brainchild
00:00 - 02:52
2m 52s

Sahana explains that what an individual does online impacts what they do in real life. The show conducts a social experiment to prove that individuals change their opinions based on the popularity. The ambiguity of a situation causes people to follow the crowd.

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Taylor joins a social network called Clicksters that everyone at school uses. Her friends help her set it up, and Taylor quickly becomes heavily involved in the website.
Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously theorized that, with his Panopticon device, people could be controlled because they would believe they are being observed. In this dystopia, people are rated by peers and are therefore never off, never anonymous, and always observed.
Barney is at his locker while the other kids play with their bots. He gets scared by one of the bots, which causes everyone to look at him. Another classmate then asks him if he has a bot yet.