In the year 2020, nobody will bother to go out dancing. Nobody will take up evening classes in pottery, or wend their way around supermarket aisles in the hope of meeting a mate.
All 'real-world' dating rituals will have evaporated, and the new mode of pulling will be exclusively virtual. We will all find love through computers alone. It is less hassle and, thanks to the rise of 'globesity' (the world-wide drive towards corpulence), most of us will be too dumpy.
Accordingly, if you desire to spread your genes, you had better become an expert in an art signified by one of the most revolting words to bluff its way into the digital dictionary, a coinage so debased that even some acronyms possess more charisma in comparison. The word is 'eflirt'.
After a rigorous investigation of dating sites ranging from Yahoo! personals to desperation.com and anythingwithapulse.co.uk, Technopedia brings you some fail-safe tips on snaring your prey.
The good news is you do not even have to think. Once you have picked your site from the swelling throng, just copy the profile texts below, word-for-word, and the Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston of your dreams will instantly arrive on your doorstep in the buff, asking what took you so long.
If you are male, try not to sound like an introverted loner with a weakness for guns and a grudge against women.
Ideally, this is how your profile should read: 'I am 6'2', with washboard abs and a Harvard MBA. I run my own Fortune 500 company, which Bill Gates recently tipped as 'certain to be bigger than Google'. In my free time I enjoy collecting fine wine and art for my extensive collection, but my real passion is for the children's charity I run. I have a sensitive side but can dish it out if I have to. In fact, only last week I single-handedly saved a helpless granny from a gang of crack addicts brandishing Samurai swords. By the way, I also have a sense of humour that can melt any female at 40 paces, but I use it discriminatingly as I am looking for a meaningful relationship.'