Only a decade ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone. The mobile app boom came afterward, helping to make services like Uber, Twitter, Instagram, and Tinder household names. We’re still feeling the effects that technological change is having on our culture and relationships, says Nicole Ellison, a professor at the School of Information. We may reach a point where tech helps us more easily find people in our daily lives. Imagine, for example, an app that points out a fellow Game of Thrones fan at a party, so you can more easily strike up a conversation. “We have more information about people than ever before, and many of us have these supercomputers in our pocket that have geolocation capabilities to see who’s around us in space,” she said. Together, that information could help us more easily talk to each other, find common ground, and (maybe) live happily ever after.
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