The bottleneck in dating isn’t matching. It’s time
Nobel Prize-winning algorithms can find you a match, but nothing beats a free Friday night.
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FirstDate, launched by the Government Technology Agency on Sept 29, is a pilot dating service for public officers aged 21 to 35.
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Al Lim
Who would want the Government to help them date? That question came up at a session of the Institute of Policy Studies’ Young Singaporeans Conference, titled Future Makers. A few hands went up from among the 30 participants who brainstormed ways to address Singapore’s declining total fertility rate.
The counterpoint to that question was that at least you won’t get catfished. That counterpoint is now an app.