{"id":16569,"date":"2024-11-14T20:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/distant-memories-of-the-near-future-review-dating-dystopia-makes-you-glad-to-be-alive-now\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:37:44","slug":"distant-memories-of-the-near-future-review-dating-dystopia-makes-you-glad-to-be-alive-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/distant-memories-of-the-near-future-review-dating-dystopia-makes-you-glad-to-be-alive-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant Memories of the Near Future review \u2013 dating dystopia makes you glad to be alive now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arcola theatre, London<br \/><\/strong>Four interwoven stories set in 2043 explore love, connection and AI. Their ideas are beautifully written but dramatically truncated<\/p>\n<p>The year is 2043 and the world\u2019s data has been so comprehensively harvested that a dating app promises subscribers a perfect match with every compatible partner on the planet. As the advert tells us: \u201cLove is simply an algorithm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is, unless you are deemed \u201cundesirable\u201d by the algorithm. This near future has intimations of the Orwellian, including mandated adverts spewing out on screen to its citizens and artificial intelligence giving lessons on humanness.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcolatheatre.com\/whats-on\/distant-memories-of-the-near-future\/\">Arcola theatre, London<\/a>, until 30 November<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2024\/nov\/14\/distant-memories-of-the-near-future-review-arcola-theatre\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/974ea1c11eb42a342f9cb9ab3361c22a8d7b55ee\/0_242_3905_2343\/master\/3905.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ddb2003e0b4f0429e9174d5017468ded\" title=\"Distant Memories of the Near Future review \u2013 dating dystopia makes you glad to be alive now\" \/>Arcola theatre, LondonFour interwoven stories set in 2043 explore love, connection and AI. Their ideas are beautifully written but dramatically truncated<br \/>\nThe year is 2043 and the world\u2019s data has been so comprehensively harvested that a dating app promises subscribers a perfect match with every compatible partner on the planet. As the advert tells us: \u201cLove is simply an algorithm.\u201d<br \/>\nThat is, unless you are deemed \u201cundesirable\u201d by the algorithm. This near future has intimations of the Orwellian, including mandated adverts spewing out on screen to its citizens and artificial intelligence giving lessons on humanness.<br \/>\nAt the Arcola theatre, London, until 30 November Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcola theatre, LondonFour interwoven stories set in 2043 explore love, connection and AI. Their ideas are beautifully written but dramatically truncated The year is 2043 and the world\u2019s data has been so comprehensively harvested that a dating app promises subscribers a perfect match with every compatible partner on the planet. As the advert tells us: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/distant-memories-of-the-near-future-review-dating-dystopia-makes-you-glad-to-be-alive-now\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Distant Memories of the Near Future review \u2013 dating dystopia makes you glad to be alive now<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}