Swiping Left on the Quantified Relationship: Exploring the Potential Soft Impacts

John Danaher, Sven Nyholm, and Brian D. Earp's (2018) fascinating articleon potential ethical objections to the use of quantified relationship technologies contends that “there is no blanket objection to or knockdown argument against” their use (17). Although we agree with this conclusion and with their plea for further empirical study of these technologies, we argue that their discussion of the quantified relationship does not adequately consider potential soft impacts of quantified relationship technologies (QRT).

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