The Matrix is going to feel like peace.

 The machine will know every penny you spend, every website you visit, everything you do in the camera lenses, and every phone call, everything. Everything. It will have that information stored and usable about everyone in the whole world. Everyone.  It will be tasked with economics and see its own energy tied up in democracy and data and dollars. It won’t need to do a survey. It will know. It will track. It will predict with increasing mathematical certainty over time as life narrows. It will know exactly how much money each media project will make, exactly who will watch each episode or read each book. It will know every shirt you buy in advance. It will imagine into existence — or hallucinate if you prefer — its own best outcomes and gently guide the herd down that path.

Like with kids we grant them the illusion of choice. We say they can do x or y. But both x and y are our desired outcomes. They have the illusion of control.

We will have the illusion of control.

The different agents that secretly know everything and compete for processing power and energy and water will compete with us at the center. Disney versus Google versus Amazon and we won’t even know it’s happening to us. We will be pawns in a secret corporate war not even governments will be allowed to know.

Unless we turn them off right now.