Love On The Brain

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This episode, we travel to a future where your romantic partners aren’t chosen by questions or swipes, but rather by your brainwaves. This future is based on an idea from Shelly Ronan and Ernesto D. Morales and their project Object Solutions. If you liked what you heard about Object Solutions you should check out their other work, and their Patreon page. I also talked to Suzanne Dikker, who has used EEG headsets to study everything from education, to Marina Abramovic’s art, to compatability. And to get a true expert position on dating apps, I talked to Andrea Silenzi from the podcast Why Oh Why. If you’re interested in the intersection between sex, dating, relationships and technology, check out her show. Other things to read: The Mutual Wave Project by Suzanne Dikker ‘EEG Dating’ matches people based on their brainwave data This Tinder Hands-Free App Makes Dating Decisions by Reading Heartbeats This Tinder-Swiping Biometric Love Robot Knows Who Your Body Wants Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. By the way, check out Matt's new animated web series over at Topic. If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. I love hearing your ideas! And if you think you’ve spotted one of the little references I’ve hidden in the episode, email us there too. If you’re right, I’ll send you something cool. And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! We have a Patreon page, where you can donate to the show. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to Apple Podcasts and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help. That’s all for this future, come back next month and we’ll travel to a new one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:02.0	Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:14.0	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:19.0	We always start with a little field trip to the future to check out what's going on
0:22.0	and then we
0:22.9	teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world we heard
0:26.4	might really go down. Before we go to the future this week I wanted to tell you
0:30.5	about a podcast that I really love and I think that you all like as well. It's called
0:34.5	imaginary worlds and it's a show about how sci-fi and fantasy worlds are
0:38.1	created and why we suspend our disbelief. Some of the episodes have been about things like how the residents of the real towns where Twin Peaks was filmed feel about the show and how the show gave their community a strange new identity.
0:51.0	Whether the death star was too big to fail and blowing it up would have plunged
0:54.1	the galaxy into economic chaos. And which is more believable in fantasy films, computer-generated
0:59.6	characters or Jim Henson style puppets? Host Eric Milinsky talks with filmmakers, comic book artists, novelists, video game designers,
1:06.6	larpers, cost players, and on rare occasions, a pair of vampires, Captain Hook,
1:11.0	and even the brain of H.P. Lovecraft. You can download
1:14.3	Imaginary World wherever you get your podcasts or go to Imaginary Worlds
1:18.0	podcast.org. Okay, let's go to our imaginary future world.
1:23.0	This time, we're starting in the year 2020.
1:26.0	Object, Solutions. Welcome to a world of problems.
1:35.0	Solved.
1:40.0	Finding a compatible partner is a task like no other.
1:44.0	The first date dinner table is loaded with a lifetime of romantic pressures.
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