The Future Of Relationships

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.

by Ben Schiller
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