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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I think cooking will, by 2040, be a niche activity like e.g. gardening or sewing, not something which one would reasonably expect from substantially every household. It's getting squeezed by a combination of long-running social changes, cultural norms, and...
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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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Imo more likely are (self driving) trucks with built in specialized automated kitchens cooking food continuously while en route. Much higher route efficiency, fresher food, and shorter delivery times.
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Ah. I would bet heavily, heavily against mobile automated kitchens being able to serve more than 5% of meals eaten in the US yesterday within next 50 years. Are you thinking cuisine preference changes radically to enable that to happen?
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Not projecting changes in cruising preferences. What’s your reasoning?
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The incredible difficulty of working with liquids in open air, essentially, which seems to be a pretty core food prep task and which I don’t think we possess industrial technology to do in a mobile environment. We can barely do parts of it stationary.
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Functionally anything done in a saucepan can be done in a semi-enclosed cooking bulb (similar to spyce). What specifically are you thinking of?
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