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Love in the Time of Algorithms by Dan Slater

Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating BY Dan Slater. Current Hardcover. Hardcover, 272 pages. $25.
Cover of Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating

Dan Slater’s parents met through Contact, Inc., a matchmaking service that debuted in 1965 and went defunct soon after—though not before the two college students paid $4 each and filled out Contact’s 100-question personality test. A rented mainframe computer nicknamed Eros tallied up their responses and concluded they were well-suited. And thus a Harvard boy got introduced to a Mount Holyoke girl.