[mortenjorck]

I'm still trying to figure out just what my reaction to that sentence was. It was some strange mixture of pathos, horror, and, contemplating a world in which such an idea has taken hold, how to unite people against such a thing.

[Zigurd]

> contemplating a world in which such an idea has taken hold

Like any conference for the past few years already?

[Silhouette]

Fortunately, your nightmare world would helpfully self-select those of us who share your horror for you to unite with, because presumably everyone who actually thought this was a good idea would be too busy only meeting people like themselves and consolidating their groupthink.

Personally, I concluded that the claimed functionality such as you described must have been added for comic effect, particularly the line in the next paragraph about how someone's facial recognition technology could help me to know whether someone who is presumably right in front of me at the time is attractive or not...