3. Dating Analytics
The same algorithms that recommend “Sharknado 2 based on your interest in Schindler’s List” could also suggest methods for improving your love life, via a series of charts and spreadsheets.
Perhaps such an app could trawl through an entire relationship’s worth of messages and pinpoint the exact moment things began to go downhill? Many of us already entrust a large part of our romantic lives to apps – our first contact with extraterrestrial life will probably come after one plucky soul sets his Tinder discovery settings to “one lightyear away”.
But is something as endlessly complex and intangible as love really quantifiable? In the end I suppose it all comes down to androgens, estrogens, dopamine, norepinephrine, and slow jams.
