A form of enslavement - Wordsmith.org

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Also called screen sucking, this phenomenon is clearly just an opening gambit on the part of the digital panoply to take us over. Believing as we do that we are its master, as we blithely manufacture more and more sophisticated computers and robots along with their means of communication, eg, the Internet; this world is unconsciously subsuming various aspects of our everyday life until ultimately we will become its slaves. We will be its robots.

What does this have to do with language? I need a word for this process, that is, of enslavement by a widespread, vast, all-inclusive non-human, unfeeling entity; its victims being entirely unaware of what�s happening to them

Subtle electronic subjugation?

Digital thrall?

Dear Dale , I'm enslaved to this forum and I know it. I'd rather not know it, but I do and it makes no difference. I tried to kick the habit (oh no) but even if someone would find a word for this enslavement I would not be cured.
Knowing that I'm 'screensucker'does not help a bit

Thanks for the beautiful black jackrabbits.

No, seriously Dale, how many hours a day could you spend at your computer to be called enslaved? 4 ? 6 ? 2 ? 8 ? Maybe after all I'm not enslaved. Where is the limit ?

Assimilation. Resistance is futile.
Absorption. It is the will of Landrew.

"A recurring theme I sense." -Yoda [AnnaS in some sources]

Dale, I'm your man. What you are talking about is a technological singularity. Or, to be more precise, a runaway AI scenario involving "unfriendly AI". Read Kurzweil, Bostrom, et al.

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Runaway A.I.
Once strong AI is achieved, it can readily be advanced and its powers multiplied, as that is the fundamental nature of machine abilities. As one strong AI immediately begets many strong AIs, the latter access their own design, understand and improve it, and thereby very rapidly evolve into a yet more capable, more intelligent AI, with the cycle repeating itself indefinitely. Each cycle not only creates a more intelligent AI but takes less time than the cycle before it, as is the nature of technological evolution (or any evolutionary process). The premise is that once strong AI is achieved, it will immediately become a runaway phenomenon of rapidly escalating superintelligence... Superintelligence innately cannot be controlled.
�Raymond Kurzweil (2005)

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When we create the first superintelligent entity, we might make a mistake and give it goals that lead it to annihilate humankind, assuming its enormous intellectual advantage gives it the power to do so. For example, we could mistakenly elevate a subgoal to the status of a supergoal. We tell it to solve a mathematical problem, and it complies by turning all the matter in the solar system into a giant calculating device, in the process killing the person who asked the question.
�Nick Bostrom (2002).

You might start with Wiki. Read Technological Singularity, The Singularity is Near and perhaps even Simulated Reality

Bran: You're welcome, but I like the desert cottontail better
Re the PC, when you're hooked you will know it

Hydra: Thank you, that's most pertinent indeed

Allright then, I know it. (But it is a mild form)
When your robots will go assimilate all life forms on Earth, I hope they will overlook the blacktailed jackrabbit.
Who is a hare btw, mind the difference. And robots will just miss that little detail ( they always miss one tiny, but essential detail) and hence will be confused silly.