Digital dating platforms, relationship self-tracking ("quantified relationship") technologies, and increasingly sophisticated AI companions (Replika, Character.ai, and their successors) are reshaping the temporality, reciprocity, and embodied char
On relational approaches, agency is not a property of isolated individuals but a capacity realised between persons: in conversation, intimacy, shared remembering, and trust.
Contemplating future lives, especially children’s futures, introduces ethical challenges which has received attention by philosophers (Allen 2019; Nussbaum, Liberman, Trope 2006; Paul 2014; Seligman et al. 2013; Velleman 1991).