Tyler Cowen on how the biggest change in daily life from tech in next 20 years will be due to improvements in cars: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-29/forget-robots-the-breakthrough-technology-will-be-in-your-car … I've got an alternate one and, forewarned, this is going to be aesthetically very unpleasant for some people:
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... rapid innovation in business models caused by both the Internet, the rise of subscription- and marketplace-enabled commerce, and enormous innovation in delivery networks.
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Also if you think we get any form of self-driving vehicles launch in next 20 years in wide deployment in cities then you can have cooking done at centralized kitchens and delivery done by uncrewed vans streetside with pickup assisted by kiosk/smartphone.
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Isn’t this almost already the case in many major Asian cities?
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I have a visceral gut level resistance to this, but you’re probably right. Restaurants have already proved you can centralize the skills of a few people and serve many others at scale. They just need more infrastructure and some normative catch up.
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They’re also transforming the way the US eats, if you look at stats on either meals or dollars consumed in home versus out of home since e.g. 1980.
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Largely agree, though I’m curious to know what the fate of the kitchen will be. My friend owns a high end kitchen design company. Most of his clients eat out most meals - or get delivery, microwave, etc, but buy a $500k kitchen purely as a status symbol.
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lol $500k kitchen jfc i thought i was extravagant
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I hate this but I think you’re right
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This was a thing in Roman cities, in Pompeii for example only the rich had kitchens and home cooked food, most people ate out. Partly because urban housing was expensive and not having a kitchen saves money and partly because open flames and wooden buildings often ended badly
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