Future of love: At the dangerous intersection of longing, loneliness, politics and technology

Image caption: Complexities of love. Image credit: Kiss Love 9 by Pop Art World. Opinion article by Abhijit Majumder. Firstpost – updated November 23, 2022.

The journey of human intimacy in the next four or five decades may decide the course of human history for centuries to come

“Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It’s kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.” Amy Adams tells her lonely and introverted friend Theodore Twombly (played by Joaquin Phoenix) in the 2013 movie, Her. But as he goes through his divorce with his childhood sweetheart, Theodore gradually wakes to an even more insane love…with his newly acquired AI-driven operating system, Samantha. It is not just that film. A steady string of blips on the popular culture monitor — from movies like Newness to OTT series like Westworld and Black Mirror to dating app trends — are telling us that love and longing have taken a turn into the thickets of the unknown. […]

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