Artificial intelligence, robotics and societal change: The last revolution in the history of humanity?
When people talk about the future of AI, they usually imagine one of two things: either a terrifying machine overlord, or a glorified office assistant summarising emails while slowly encouraging humanity to communicate entirely in bullet points. Neither vision inspires me much.
The future I want looks rather different.
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Eight months ago I wrote here about the future of food – from robot foragers bringing wild garlic to your door to decentralised swaps of apples for eggs. That vision was about what ends up on our plates. But behind the cuisine lies the soil, and if the soil fails, so does every other dream.
In twenty years, dinner might look a lot different than it does today. Picture this: instead of a frozen, microwaved meal, you’re enjoying a plate of seasonal, locally sourced food – picked, foraged, or raised by robots. It’s a culinary revolution as transformative as the agricultural and industrial revolutions that came before, merging tradition with cutting-edge technology.
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