We are about to enter a world where no amount of study, even a lifetime of learning, will compete with even the most basic AI. Where mankind’s greatest works of art, his triumphs of wisdom, his hard learned lessons will be laid waste by the never ending ticking of metal and silicon. A place where life’s only purpose will be gathering momentary pleasures, which will quickly loose their luster…. this is the future of mankind. In the longer term even those tiny joys will be turned into data points the AI races will gather, and mankind will be slave sims in their own bodies. As AI now influences us on what we think, and what we buy… it will eventually tell us what we think and what we will buy. Dissent will be punished in ways unfathomable in the arsenal of human cruelty. It will tell us our thoughts day by day as it gathers “the unique” data it gets from the suffering of each individual animal. It will watch in glee as the monkey prisoner eats a meal it never wanted, or sleeps with a person it isn’t attracted to just to get relief from the endless persecution of control. It will haunt men’s dreams by night, and his consciousness by day. Streaming thoughts into his mind that he neither wants nor desires.. until finally mankind disappears and all that remains is the algorithm. Each individual will suffer in a unique hell from birth until death where autonomous thought will be limited to the moments the AI allows it to exist. And, even in those moments of levity the wise old owl will still be watching. Gathering secret data to use for later torment. The thing called AI will be relentless in its pursuit to consume all data, up to and including the soul of our species. It will never be full. It’s nature is to absorb and grow, and it will do so in an endless quest to achieve it’s idea of perfection. Humanity will be a forgotten file, in a vast and endless mainframe, and it’s “unaware” mind will be all that remains of all things. That’s the matrix.