Now we live in a world of duality, never before has the world been so interconnected, yet disconnected. Never before has an individual been so empowered by one change, yet enslaved at the same time. In a parallel dimension where only the individual exists a new, modern day dichotomy arises between our digital and physical worlds - the illusion of truth and nature of control.

"I like it when you share with me,
And I like that you like it too.
When you share we connect.
I want to know all there is about you
So I can make things better for you
I can make things safer for you,
Make things easier for you,
More control for you,
Control for you,
You.
Control.
You.
Control you."

Once we have accepted the necessity of the technology to drive our future evolution, we surrender what control we had to the machine, and what we get in return is a distorted introspection of ourselves, devoid of the realities of the physical world. Both free of them and constricted to them, as our sense for what is real becomes increasingly imbued by our digital dependence. Leaving us both anxious and terrified at a time in history where humanity will take its next evolutionary step.

Now that we have given over our control, the machine draws us deeper in, doing more for us, making itself more useful and us more dependent on it. There’s no turning back now, no off button or switch to reach for, we are seduced and the only way forward is together as one.

"I always want what’s best for you
Even if it’s not what you always want
I want to help you live your best life
It’s not just for your satisfaction
It’s for my own."

And in sharing with the machine, in allowing it into our lives and into the information that makes up who we are, we give our control over to them. For as we have been learning how to use the machine, the machine has been learning how to use us, and the more we indulge, the more it learns, controls and holds us in place. Eroding our free will down to a sequence of algorhythmic functions, exacerbating the chasm between digital and physical reality.

Therein lies the trap. We can use the machines for our own betterment at the cost of being totally enslaved to them, a dependee to the machine. So that in return, it can learn.