Mr. Robot: Elliot (Rami Malek) is a hacker with a heart of gold.
Here is a name you should know—that is, if you don’t know it already: Robert Gordon. He is an economist, and his ideas on economic stagnation and the current state of technological change can help explain why Mr. Robot will be the most important science-fiction TV show since Battlestar Galactica. And yes, despite taking place in a time that looks very much like the present, Mr. Robot is science fiction. Why? Because if you remove it from the continuum of works like Her, Sleep Dealer, The Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic, Dark Angel, and, of course, Blade Runner, it pretty much comes out of nowhere…
