We can marry you off, wholesale.


A book cover in the style of a 1950's pulp sci-fi novel. An AI generated set of computers are connected by wires.

Last week I was on the In The Abstract podcast. I came up with a curious idea. If I were Tom Scott, I'd turn this into a performance piece - instead, here's a short and entirely fictional story. Facebook knew you were in love a long time before you did. It noticed you scrolling back through her timeline. Every millisecond lingering over the photos of her at the beach was faithfully logged. When she sent a message to her best friend saying "Hot date tonight ;-)" it correlated all the…

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