The article analyses the impact of modern technologies – such as dating apps, algorithms, and robots – on how romantic relationships are formed and experienced. The researcher shows how our ideas about the future of relationships are based on cultural myths and the pursuit of risk elimination. Referring to historical forms of ‘code consumption’ and old prototypes of love testers, she points to the continuity of the human desire for predictability and emotional certainty. Instead of the predicted post-human ideal of harmony with machines, she forecasts a growing sterilisation of emotions and relationships. It is not technology that dehumanises love – it is people themselves, consciously choosing safe, easy, and pre-programmed emotions over authentic, risky commitment.
English
Język Polski