Let’s Talk About Love in the App Age [videos]

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 10:50 in Psychology & Sociology

Marius Bugge The Conversation on Love Christian Rudder, (left) co-founder of OkCupid and author of Dataclysm talks about the future of love with Eric Klinenberg, sociologist at New York University and co-author of Modern Romance with Aziz Ansari. Love Apptually People today are busy. As a result, they’re staying single longer, and they’re more and more connected to their devices. In some ways, technology enhances human interaction.1 Smartphones and laptops have changed how we communicate with almost everyone: our moms, our cat-sitters, and even our best friends from grade school.2 They have certainly changed whom we have sex with and date.3 Apps like Tinder connect people who otherwise might not have met.4 And they’re becoming more efficient at it all the time.5 Apps curate our choices,6 make...

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