I’ve been thinking about recycled ideas. This sprang to mind last night when watching All of You, and thinking I’ve seen this idea before. I just had to figure out where. It wasn’t the 2009 film Timers where people where a device that counts down to the moment you will meet your soulmate. Nor was it Soulmates, the 2020 anthology series where Goldstein and Bridges first tested out the ideas for the film. No, it’s The One, a netflix released film that turns this concept into a thriller where the focus is on the creators and not the people being matched.
It has been done a lot.
I believe that when things like this keep popping up then we are building towards real scientists somewhere getting the idea they can make this happen. I believe this is the way science is influenced by science fiction. See a thing long enough that is cool enough and eventually someone is going to make it. The “rule 34” of science. So, is this a tech we want? I bet most people do. I believe I am with the right person, so I have no interest in someone else taking a test to decide if I am their right person or my wife’s. We’re good here. That is another part of this tech that is not discussed. Except in this latest film it sort of is…