Social distancing is making us all look at our relationships with fresh eyes. Love is one of the most trivial, and yet most important aspects of our life.
And that is exactly why we love sci-fi.
It's a way to deliberately think about things that are too commonplace to pay attention to.

So we took our Sci-Fi Eye - the tendency to look differently at those facets of our lives, dissect it and examine it from a distance - and went to look for love.

What did we find? Listen and find out.

This is a Part One of a Two-Part Episode:
In Part 1, we look at how people look for love today with that Sci-Fi Eye.
In Part 2 - to be published soon - we will look at how science fiction examines the search for love, and what can we learn from it about ourselves.

Show Notes: 

Links

• Techcrunch 2019 dating survey:
  https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/06/pew-30-of-u-s-adults-have-used-online-dating-12-found-a-committed-relationships-from-it/
• Technological and social co-production: Sheila Jasanoff -https://sheilajasanoff.org/research/co-production/

References

• Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
• Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World, (1931)
• Ernst Klein, Ready Player One (2011), film by Steven Spielberg (2018) 
• Neil Postman  - Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)
• Idris Seabright - Short in the Chest (1954)  

Sound Bites

• "Swipe", Miracles of Modern Science -
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PpBsRO7iWY
• Computer Magic, SoundEffects Heaven -
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SmDcLhKBLg
• "Money, Money, Money", ABBA -
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0
• "Delicious", Candy Crush
• Wile E. Coyote Falling, Cartoon Network -
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRSHzenjiNA