From a purely "secular" point of view, sooner or later (probably sooner) the robots are gonna get smart enough that there won't be any meaningful labor humans do any better than they do. Not just factory workers, not just pencil pushers, EVERYONE will be crap at doing their job compared to a machine. So then what? 6+ billion people all lying around doing nothing? I don't think so. We need something purposeful to do, a raison d'etre as they say. People would go nuts without a purpose, and hedonism as a philosophy can only take you so far. There wouldn't be anything worth our doing in such a world. So - if the machines decide to keep us around at all - they might as well create a fake world for us, and let us feel fulfilled and frustrated and everything else we call being human. Just like in the movie, I guarantee we won't accept an artificial paradise world.
Of course, if God exists, there must be a qualitative difference between what He creates and what we can create. We cannot make an eternal soul. So either we will discover that limitation as we further our artificial intelligence capabilities, or the end will come first, or ... it will look like there's no difference. I gotta admit that's pretty scary.
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