Let's be honest - We're in love with technology.

On any given day, my phone is easily the first thing I see when I wake up, and the last thing I see before I fall asleep. Our society has developed an insatible craving to always be on our phones, even when we are surrounded by friends and family. The ultimate test that shows our dependency to our phones is when we leave our house but leave our phone behind - do you keep on going, or do you turn back to get it?

We're reaching a point where technology is becoming more and more invisible and ingrained into our lives. Things like our washing machines and watches are getting smart, and pretty soon they're all going to talk to each other without us even telling them to do so. With things like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, these devices are also developing a voice and a personality. Our digital assistants are designed to answer to our every desire, and the more realistic they get the more I think i'm going to fall in love with it. Here's why:

It Knows My Secrets

The Internet can lead us to some pretty weird stuff. After all, there's a reason why most internet browsers these days have a "private mode". Every time I have a question, no matter the topic, the first thing I do is pull out my phone and search. All these searches, all these pages I visit, are being tracked by a digital crumb trail called "Cookies". Cookies serve an important role in making our Internet experience more personal, but it's also slowly creating the most extensive digital profile of ourselves that we wouldn't want anyone else to see.

Modern day last words

Major tech companies like Facebook and Google have recently gone under fire for using this tracking data to heavily advertise to us. We use those services so extensively, giving them access to almost all our data, that they are now worth billions. We usually see someone who knows our secrets as a best friend - but what happens when that person is a machine?

It Knows What I Want Before I Do

Our devices are starting to know what we want before we even do. Services like Google Now and Siri Proactive are using a combination of your recent searches and patterns to determine what you want before you even want it. Have an event to go to in an hour and you're still getting ready? Siri makes sure to remind you to leave 15 minutes early because she noticed there's traffic on the way there - all without you even telling her to do so.

The first time I got an Android phone, I opened the Google App Store and was surprised that the home page was already populated with every topic and app I love to use. Since I use Google to search, watch videos, and professionally work, it pulled all that information and created an app store that was tailor-made for me. This is the equivalent of someone saying all the right things, all the time - wouldn't you fall in love too?

It's Getting Physical

Ava from the 2015 film "Ex Machina"

Our digital helpers are no longer stuck behind a screen, they're seeping into our physical realm. It's starting with things like holograms, but soon we will start seeing androids that look, sound, and feel like a human. In fact, at this years Cannes International Festival of Creativity, the company Dentsu unveiled an android that impersonates a celebrities likeness. We already see self-serve machines at fast food restaurants and groceries - it wouldn't be too surprising that an android can ring us up in the near future.

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Companies are working hard every day to make technology more and more "human". Microsoft went as far as to interview real-life personal assistants to shape the way their virtual assistant Cortana would speak and act. Also, the more we interact with them the more they learn about our mannerisms and pain-points. One of these days I am going to be at a bar asking myself "Is this woman real or an android?" - are we ready for that?

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