Greetings good citizen, another favorite 'hobby horse' of Futurists past was food, although somewhat surprisingly, nobody predicted the Frankenfood that exists today.
Equally as curious is nobody predicted we'd be using 'food as fuel' either...because back then there was more oil around that you could shake a stick at, the idea of running out was laughable (just ask anyone in the oil industry...]
The Jetsons and the Enterprise both had food synthesizers although only the unit on the Enterprise utilized 'voice command'...on the Jetsons, the robot maid operated the food 'e-rack-a-tac-a-tater' (and you're older than dirt if you remember that!)
One of the other hotly debated topics surrounding food was the mess. Those who saw eating as 'the intake of necessary nutrients' theorized food would be reduced to 'pill form' with supplements available for those who needed them.
While the 'foodies' among us smiled. We need to 'chew' and more than just for the exercise. The process of preparing and consuming a meal is one of life's simple pleasures.
When we entertain, do we not 'break bread' with our friends?
Food is as much a 'social ritual' as it is 'basic machine maintenance' but the 'mess adverse' among us continued to fantascize that we'd do away with dishes and reduce the ritual of feeding ourselves to the popping of a pill, gulp and done.
It's fun to visit the future but as our 'awareness' of our world has grown we encountered the disturbing fact that we are rapidly approaching something known as 'maximum carrying capacity'...for the planet. [What, this is the first you've heard? What was Oprah thinking!]
Funny how all these discussions circle back on one another! Yes, good citizen, we need another planet, five of them if you perform acounting like a Yale MBA does (Full disclosure, I'm from Boston and I ain't giving Harvard the 'black-eye!)
Worse, thanks to widespread corruption, famine is everywhere. Even here in the famous 'breadbasket of the world' there isn't a single community in the entire USA that doesn't have a struggling foodbank.
Which is to say while some of you probably think we could sure use those pills about now...our bodies are built to 'extract nutreints' from food substances. There are no acceptable shortcuts. Don't put anything in your stomach and that bag of acid will eat a hole in you! (and blow up like a balloon in the process!)
What does the future hold? If we don't find a substitute for fossil fuel, food production will drop dramatically, with more than a little 'predictable results'.
[Fossil fuels not only power farm equipment but the nitrates used in fertilizer also come mainly from processed petroleum.] considering how badly overfarmed earth's soil is, what do you think of the global energy situation now?
Which brings us to a 'revelation' good citizen. Have you notice how everything I expouse upon has a, er, Black lining, which is to say...and it's not me, everywhere you look, we're in trouble because those running the show have the commerce system dialed to 'infinite' instead of 'sustainable'.
Which is to say we'll get a lot further working with the planet than trying to use it up as fast as...we[/they] can...
remember, the future is now!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Equally as curious is nobody predicted we'd be using 'food as fuel' either...because back then there was more oil around that you could shake a stick at, the idea of running out was laughable (just ask anyone in the oil industry...]
The Jetsons and the Enterprise both had food synthesizers although only the unit on the Enterprise utilized 'voice command'...on the Jetsons, the robot maid operated the food 'e-rack-a-tac-a-tater' (and you're older than dirt if you remember that!)
One of the other hotly debated topics surrounding food was the mess. Those who saw eating as 'the intake of necessary nutrients' theorized food would be reduced to 'pill form' with supplements available for those who needed them.
While the 'foodies' among us smiled. We need to 'chew' and more than just for the exercise. The process of preparing and consuming a meal is one of life's simple pleasures.
When we entertain, do we not 'break bread' with our friends?
Food is as much a 'social ritual' as it is 'basic machine maintenance' but the 'mess adverse' among us continued to fantascize that we'd do away with dishes and reduce the ritual of feeding ourselves to the popping of a pill, gulp and done.
It's fun to visit the future but as our 'awareness' of our world has grown we encountered the disturbing fact that we are rapidly approaching something known as 'maximum carrying capacity'...for the planet. [What, this is the first you've heard? What was Oprah thinking!]
Funny how all these discussions circle back on one another! Yes, good citizen, we need another planet, five of them if you perform acounting like a Yale MBA does (Full disclosure, I'm from Boston and I ain't giving Harvard the 'black-eye!)
Worse, thanks to widespread corruption, famine is everywhere. Even here in the famous 'breadbasket of the world' there isn't a single community in the entire USA that doesn't have a struggling foodbank.
Which is to say while some of you probably think we could sure use those pills about now...our bodies are built to 'extract nutreints' from food substances. There are no acceptable shortcuts. Don't put anything in your stomach and that bag of acid will eat a hole in you! (and blow up like a balloon in the process!)
What does the future hold? If we don't find a substitute for fossil fuel, food production will drop dramatically, with more than a little 'predictable results'.
[Fossil fuels not only power farm equipment but the nitrates used in fertilizer also come mainly from processed petroleum.] considering how badly overfarmed earth's soil is, what do you think of the global energy situation now?
Which brings us to a 'revelation' good citizen. Have you notice how everything I expouse upon has a, er, Black lining, which is to say...and it's not me, everywhere you look, we're in trouble because those running the show have the commerce system dialed to 'infinite' instead of 'sustainable'.
Which is to say we'll get a lot further working with the planet than trying to use it up as fast as...we[/they] can...
remember, the future is now!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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