FAST COMPANY – Dec 3 - Is technology killing romance or just making it more efficient? Terry Young of the trend-spotting shop Sparks & Honey talked about the future of jobs, and before that, the future of health care. He offers up some intriguing ideas about relationships in 2025.
Microbial Matchmaking
Quantified Relationship – "The use of wearable technologies bleeding over into the way we interact with each other," says Young.
Formula-One Flirting – Location-based services like Vine, Snapchat, and Grindr will proliferate.
Siri As Sex Surrogate – Sentient artificially intelligent entities could start to compete for our affections. Men in Japan already have virtual girlfriends.
Long Distance Foreplay - Technology allowing us to stimulate each other remotely will be normal.
Porn-Programmed Minds - Pornography had distorted the way men think about sex. That could lead to backlash or detox services that wash our minds of skin-on-skin imagery.
Six-Second Break-ups
Revenge Analytics - mining material to get back at exes will be easy going forward.
Artisanal Dildos - We'll be able to create replicas of our partners, or shape mementos of relationships that have ended.
Love Impact Metrics – We'll have services indexing relationship performance, an analysis of what went right, and what you need to optimize next time.
Across the board we’re going to become a whole lot more analytical and observational about our relationships. The pendulum will swing too far, and it may dehumanize relationships and push us to become even more choosy and non-committal.
I’m headed to Singularity University this week. A one week session covering advances in Biotech, AI, Medical, Environmental, Computing and Nanotech advances. Then I’ll be presenting some initial thoughts and predictions on the ‘Extreme Future of Internet Dating’ at the Internet Dating Conference in Vegas in January.
Across the board we’re going to become a whole lot more analytical and observational about our relationships. The pendulum will swing too far, and it may dehumanize relationships and push us to become even more choosy and non-committal.
I’m headed to Singularity University this week. A one week session covering advances in Biotech, AI, Medical, Environmental, Computing and Nanotech advances. Then I’ll be presenting some initial thoughts and predictions on the ‘Extreme Future of Internet Dating’ at the Internet Dating Conference in Vegas in January.
FAST COMPANY – Dec 3 - Is technology killing romance or just making it more efficient? Terry Young of the trend-spotting shop Sparks & Honey talked about the future of jobs, and before that, the future of health care. He offers up some intriguing ideas about relationships in 2025.
Across the board we’re going to become a whole lot more analytical and observational about our relationships. The pendulum will swing too far, and it may dehumanize relationships and push us to become even more choosy and non-committal.
I’m headed to Singularity University this week. A one week session covering advances in Biotech, AI, Medical, Environmental, Computing and Nanotech advances. Then I’ll be presenting some initial thoughts and predictions on the ‘Extreme Future of Internet Dating’ at the Internet Dating Conference in Vegas in January.
Across the board we’re going to become a whole lot more analytical and observational about our relationships. The pendulum will swing too far, and it may dehumanize relationships and push us to become even more choosy and non-committal.
I’m headed to Singularity University this week. A one week session covering advances in Biotech, AI, Medical, Environmental, Computing and Nanotech advances. Then I’ll be presenting some initial thoughts and predictions on the ‘Extreme Future of Internet Dating’ at the Internet Dating Conference in Vegas in January.