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Nov
The year is 2043 and the world’s 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: “Love is simply an algorithm.”That is, unless you are deemed “undesirable” 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.Unanchored … David Head in Distant Memories of the Near Future. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianStaged at the Edinburgh festival in 2023, David Head’s play is about love and…