Probably not a closed system like the matrix, but we'd be so enmeshed with technology, that we could easily put ourselves in a virtual world and be subjects to that world. For example, big tech companies care a lot about advertising; the whole purpose of stuff like Alexa and being on facebook, and other products that rely on data, is to provide material to be repacked for inference machines. Your use of products eventually gets thrown into a system that hopes to determine a new interest for you. Keeping you inside of this never ending cycle of supply and determined demand. You essentially become a slave to technological overlords.
