The engine starts by finishing words after I type a few letters, suggesting search terms other people have tried. The engine continues by watching the websites I go to, reading the words on those pages, figuring out what I’m looking at, and for how long. The engine analyzes the relationship between what I absorb and what I search for next, and it begins to suggest words before I even finish typing my first. The engine sees me research cartography, then it scans the Wikipedia page about moon landings with me, and then when I open a new tab and type “how” it finishes the sentence off with “much of the moon have we mapped?”

The engine notes when it guesses correctly, and when it reaches an average of 90% accuracy, it automatically opens new tabs and searches for me. The engine has removed the need for me to type. The engine lets me select search results for a while, but a few days pass and it no longer bothers me with that chore. The engine has also stopped bothering me with the need to scroll, as it knows how quickly I read, how much time I need to study an image.

The engine is doing all my browsing for me.

The engine is doing all my browsing for me. The engine contributes for me, too. The engine has perfect data on every comment I have made on every article, post, message, and status I have chanced upon in the past few years. The engine can anticipate my responses, and now it even interacts with my friends for me.

The engine is perfect. The engine fetches pages ahead of time now, not bothering with searches. The engine only displays ads which are perfectly tailored to me, and it knows which ones will simply pique my interest and prime me for a later purchase, and which ones will prompt me to consume immediately. The engine buys things for me, as it obviously has my credit card and delivery information at this point.

The engine is not a dystopian device.

The engine is a thing I sit in front of and allow to think for me. The engine is not a dystopian device, any more than the movement of one’s body being presaged by subconscious thinking is a chilling facet of the mind. The engine has simply learned my habits, it has not taken them from me. The engine allows me to be passive, and with that passivity comes relaxation. The engine has freed me.

The engine has written all of this, but you can trust every syllable. After all, I might as well have written it myself.