Love in a remotely-controlled climate

Nina Power

THE PROBLEM WITH THE FUTURE IS that it’s never quite as interesting or as different as we imagine (or, in some cases, hope) it might be. Human beings still feel old-fashioned emotions like jealousy, lust and disappointment, and no matter how much we might like to pretend otherwise, we will still inhabit ageing and often painful fleshy bodies that feel miserable without touch and which long for doughnuts even when too many doughnuts have already been consumed. If you’re an anthropologist-futurologist like Roanne van Voorst, curious to find out about what the future of sex might be like, it makes sense that you’d begin your enquiries at the bleeding edge of the new things that people pretend they like. After all, she tells us, experts have claimed that, by 2050,…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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