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The Future of Dating? (A Date In 2025)

My good friend and highly talented director Ryan Turner has made an incredible, multi-award-nominated short film that shows how you could be dating by 2025.

I hope you love it as much as I do…


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  • Such a good film. Heartwarming and funny. But what’s scary is how close we really are to this being a reality … reminds me of the book Children of the New World.
    If dating and interpersonal relationships are this hard now, how much harder is it going to get in the future?
    I wish meeting people organically was easier, but especially in a place like NYC, it feels next to impossible!

  • I thought the video made relevant points about how things could be. I was very disturbed by the ending though when he vomited. That was completely disgusting and unnecessary. I’m sure they could have come up with a less disturbing way of showing his fear.

  • Well, let’s make a short analyze, guys! Firstly, this short movie is basicly very similar to Spike Jonze’s movie named Her (2013) that a writer dates with a digital, ghost woman whom is his advisor also. While you seem to affirm, it criticizes this kind of digitalization. Your movie has a happy end like a fairy tale and Hollywood style. So, I cannot say that this movie is very creative. BUT! I can definitely say that your style is very creative. When I think about the all parts of the video from the beginning, including Matthew’s speech, I claim that it is a postmodern video and has almost metafiction. And I haven’t seen this kind of fiction in the other coaches’ videos. If you go on walking on this way with more creativity, it is possible to rock all the dating videos! Push the borders! But also, remember, we are still in an another age. I assume this artificial intelligence won’t work like that, 7 years later. I hope it will never!..
    And as you asked, for me it is very difficult to find good sides of dating today. What I love about dating nowadays I might say, woman are more free to express their feeling than the past. But also, I hate uncertain situations, words, behaviours in my society. People started to forget giving a promise like dating on a clear day, being sure about loving someone, etc. Keeping someone in the pocket and playing is a big problem. We don’t need digital advisors. We need to be real. Nothing can be switched with a human being. So, you are more valuable than all programs and apps, Matthew!
    P.s. I hope Matthew will read this with the help of his team. Plus, Stephen’s own narratives are more original.
    Cheers! ⭐️

  • interesting movie,congrats to ryan.
    love the playfulness of the dramatic “reality”.
    and that our inner conversation was made by an computer…..
    well,sometimes it would be nice ,to have somebody to kick ouer asses..:)
    but,lets hope,that we stay all close to ourselves and stay connected to other human beings.

  • First of all, thanks for sharing! It’s a lovely film.
    In my opinion, dating nowadays has the big disadvantage that people choose the comfort zone of online dating a lot. That means that they don’t push themselves into the learning zone of speaking to strangers, sending subtle flirting signs or learning how to make a guy come over. That is, I think an alarming situation – because frankly, it is a loss of basic social skills, which are also needed to maintain a relationship. I feel like the movie comes down to that.

  • I just watched this video with my 10 year old son who is a bit virtual-world addicted. It was a nice example to show to him how their future might look if we don’t try to keep ourselves in the off-line modus as well….
    A time-tracker is not a stupid idea anyway. :D
    thank you for that Matt!

  • It’s a cute short film!
    So what I hate about dating is mainly finding men that want to date but aren’t emotionally available, or not even really single, or just looking to have random casual sex.

    1. i agree. i meet a guy good looking and he ssaid he was single and only wanted sex. but then he said we had to be discreet about it. i then knew he was with someone.

  • what i dont like about dating is they say will texted you a lot but wont talk on the phone. when they say they want to meet you it is weeks . you say things like where you are and that they should come and they still dont ask you out. i say next . i then give up.

  • What i hate about online dating is being stood up and lied to, its so hard to keep opening yourself up over and over desperatly thinking the next one will be different.

  • Internet dating is a whole new arena for me, I really like your practical advice. I am mid fifties, I am meticulously honest in my profile, because I hate the idea of the disappointment in a man’s eyes when he sees me for the first time face to face. Why do men lie about their height, their weight, what is that?!!
    My big thankyou, most of all, your pep talks gave me the language to express why I will never sent explicit photos. “The internet is a soulless arena, and I will never put anything this valuable onto a soulless arena.” Now there are tears in my eyes as I recognize the quiet power in that statement. And it is working so far. My work keeps me in an isolated location, yes, this means I get to choose the timing of the meeting.
    I have engaged in a novel concept, its called a virtual date, it bridges the gap between where I am geographically and where the man is. And yes there are rules, and as much as possible the timing must mimic real life. We agree to virtually date on a set evening, I describe what I wear, he describes where he will virtually take me. (now its amazing how many men are foolish enough to think this gives them licence to virtually tear clothing off my body the moment I am virtually in front of them. You can imagine this sends them home virtually empty handed, they didn’t read the fine print.
    Each time something goes amiss I learn more about setting the guidelines. The second virtual date, is where we swap, he describes my outfit, and I describe the location. So, I loved the 2025 dating film.
    Dating men in their fifties is quite different to in their 20s and 30s, there is an understated desire to connect more to the person they meet, this is something I looked for 30 years ago, this is really lovely to find now.

  • Loved the video..The first meet is always the scariest. Fear of the unknown. Dating in today’s world is very different than when I was just out of high school. It was a lot easier meeting real live people oppose to meeting on online dating.

  • That was so adorable! And depressing to think people would really isolate themselves to that point. It’s the fear and the unknown that keeps us alive. Things will not always work out the way you want, but the push through and survival in the end is power to build from.

  • What I love about dating?
    I love meeting new people, and I especially love that my conversational skills and the range of interests I have – and my social anxiety under control in 1:1 situations – are such that I can always have a good time getting to know someone and giving them permission to be themselves, , even if there isn’t a spark. Now, finally with maturity and social skills, I also know to get out of it without fuss or lost time when I don’t feel comfortable or that I like them all that much. It’s rare that I feel like I wasted my time, though some encroach a bit by demanding it be longer than I want – but wasting time basically only happens when you end up going on too many dates with one person and it proves they’re just looking for something totally casual, or the chemistry doesn’t build. I’ve had a long history of giving people too much of a chance, now I make it a gracious but time-bound social exchange and I determine it’s worthy of pursuit, not circumstance and whim.

  • Wow, thank you for sharing this film! I almost teared up near the end. Showing such an exacerbated version of isolation, really accentuates on today’s milder version.
    I love that there are still people who connect in the real world. And those that let their real world be consumed by the virtual one, well, at least I won’t have to waist my time with them.
    I hate when someone expects an instant answer to every single message, when they change/make plans last minute and are shocked when turned down, when they are glued to their phone and wouldn’t try to get to know the person in front of them. I find this hugely disrespectful, when it is a habit. Sometimes it happens, so I try to delay my judgement; yet in the long run this is 100% a deal breaker.
    As for isolation, aren’t we isolated already if we have to wage a war against someone’s phone for their attention?

  • Shouldn’t talk about killing yourself but video was ok other than that Dating site dating don’t like the ackwardbess

  • Dating in 2015 is so surreal, i love this.

    what I hate about dating currently is that people are so confused between old school dating and dating with the aide of technology, i think this mixture of two different times in life is spoiling everything.

    lets just keep it simple and straightforward, without showing off that you live in the technoligical era.

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