Brave New World?

From Sarah Firisen, in 3 Quarks Daily

Recently, my husband received an email from a very casual acquaintance and wondered where this person lived. He Googled them, found their address and was presented, by Google Street view, with a picture of their house, and all within the space of 2 minutes. This exercise caused me to comment to him, “it must be really different dating these days” – we’ve been together 15 years – “it’s so much harder for anyone to lie anymore.”

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