April 29, 2021 Backstage at the jam-packed product launch event in Silicon Valley, the CEO walks past a framed copy of Wired Magazine headlined “Our Tech Savior,” with his own mug smiling back at him on the cover. As thousands of smartphone-wielding techies await his every word, fictional big tech executive Mark Bowman asks his device for an update. “Stock price is up, and your rivals are worried. I hacked into their private e-mails,” answers the Alexa-sounding smartphone voiced by Oscar winner Olivia Colman. He questions her in seeming disbelief: “Wait, their private emails? That’s a dangerous overreach of corporate power!” Then the human CEO and his glass-screened companion laugh together with knowing winks.