After watching the new Black Mirror, I've been wondering: if Arkangel was banned in Europe, and was soon to be banned in the US while Sara was still a child, how did it continue to work when she became a teenager?
Surely the company would have been shut down by then, thus making the device useless as the servers would have been turned off?
Or is there something more sinister about the Arkangel system and how it works?
There's no real indication that it requires a backend.
Maybe we're supposed to believe it only needs the implant & 'iPad' to function.
This is a similar theme throughout Black Mirror. Technologies are simply a "given" with little explanation as to how they function. Historically, much good sci-fi has done the same. You don't need to know how it works, or even its history, to appreciate the tale being told using that tech as a backdrop. You just have to accept "it works".
Many of the Black Mirror stories are actually 'moral tales' - they just use a tech backdrop to provoke a stronger sense of it not being quite current-day, even though the audience is aware it is indeed a 'mirror' of current society... hence the title.
