As more of our lives are transformed into virtual illusions orchestrated by AI systems, how will programmers and designers overcome the overwhelming pressure to simply “give the people what they want,” and instead encode the serendipity and seeming randomness of real life into future systems? Or will such randomness be designed into a gamified and illusion-based future so that human desires can be more easily manipulated? What happens to a society — or to an individual — when placed into an echo-chamber and exposed to only what we want to encounter, or have been convinced we want to encounter?