Since the dawn of time, or at least since the golden era of the 1990s rom-com, humans have tried to predict how love will look in the future. Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail painted the innocent early days of cyberdating; the 2013 film Her saw a lonely writer fall deeply for his virtual assistant; and in 2017, speculative design studio Object Solutions imagined a world in which we'll all wear brainwave monitoring headsets and find our perfect partner based on complementary neural sparks.
The first two narratives have since come to life to varying degrees, and the third isn't as outlandish as it might initially sound. Because while love has long been the domain
