I recently attended a wedding where the groom told a story of his and his new wife’s lives over almost a decade. The times when they almost met, but didn’t. The time when he – an Australian – was performing in a London pub with his future wife in the audience.They wouldn’t meet for years. A sequence of near-misses,almost and what-ifs culminated in a wonderfully romantic speech on their wedding day.
But none of it would have been, were it not for a dating app. Fate had tried to bring them together to no avail. It took an algorithm, carefully curating their prospective partners, in combination with their shared attraction
