or taste of a meal we re thinking of preparing? it s all within the realm of possibility in the next 5 years, according to IBM s list of technologies it thinks are on the cusp of adoption.
the smell or taste of food. The general premise is that these sensory and cognitive technologies will convert computers from glorified calculators into true thinking machines.
teething, or something more serious. 4. Digitized taste buds IBM s brainiacs think that machines will increasingly be able to taste things#like chocolate
or seafood ingredients that reinforce the flavor of different meats, or in some cases, can act as a substitute for a meat entirely.#
#This understanding of the chemical elements of food could help people get healthier by subbing in something that tastes like milk chocolate
but is better for them. 5. A nose that knows Breath analysis can do drunk more than keep drivers off the road.
At the company s annual meeting this spring, the chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, noted that just a few years ago mobile app#wasn t even in people s vocabulary.
it does not note that as much as half of that money goes to developers outside the United states. The pie,
I d rather get 70 percent of a large pie than all of a small pie, #he said.
And they do it all without a coffee break#three shifts a day, 365 days a year. All told, the factory here has several dozen workers per shift, about a tenth as many as the plant in the Chinese city of Zhuhai.
#But Bran Ferren, a veteran roboticist and industrial product designer at Applied Minds in Glendale, Calif.,argues that there are still steep obstacles that have made the dream of the universal assembly robot elusive.
Robots could soon replace workers at companies like C & S Wholesale Grocers, the nation s largest grocery distributor,
From this warehouse in Newburgh, C & S, the nation s largest grocery wholesaler, supplies a major supermarket chain.
and darting electric vehicles as workers with headsets are directed to cases of food by a computer that speaks to them in four languages.
and on command will race along an aisle until it reaches its destination#a case of food to retrieve
From the aisle, the robots wait their turn to pull into a special open lane where they deposit each load into an elevator that sends a stream of food cases down to a conveyor belt that leads to a large robot arm.
the cases of food moving through the robotic warehouse are like the digital bits being processed by the computer.
and retrieves cases of food. That led to the elimination of 106 jobs roughly 20 percent of the work force.
N h. It was a performance that might have called for a bottle of Champagne #if that were a luxury Mr. Golson could have afforded.
what is called the Genius Bar. Apple declined requests for interviews for this article. Instead, the company issued a statement:
Thousands of incredibly talented professionals work behind the Genius Bar anddeliver the best customer service in the world.
If there is a secret to Apple s sauce, this is it: the company ennobles employees. It understands that a lot of people will forgo money
when the bar was open, management at these stores decreed, it was to be staffed by any technician in the building.
Repairs that could not be done at the bar would wait. As a result, the late shift in the repair room at these stores ended not at 10 p m.
And we all got two tacos from a taco truck. That was our surprise. Two tacos.#
#Rising to the Top Like many who spoke for this article, Shane Garcia, the former Chicago manager, talked about Apple with a bittersweet mix of admiration and sadness.
ashy roasts we drink today. Big producers want uniform taste, and a dark roast makes that easy:
it evens out flavors and masks flaws. But now the best beans are increasingly being set aside
Improvements like these have allowed roasters to make coffee that tastes like Seville oranges or toasted almonds or berries,
Starbucks, for instance, now has a Blonde Roast. As quality continues to improve, coffee will lighten,
and dark roasts may just become a relic of the past. 3. Analytical Undies Your spandex can now subtly nag you to work out.
certain jams could be avoided simply through harmonizing speeds and smoothing driver reactions. One study shows that even a highway that is running at peak capacity has only 4. 5 percent of its surface area occupied.
A World without Hangovers Researchers at Imperial College London are closing in on a formula for a new kind of booze#synthetic alcohol
it s called#that would forever eliminate the next morning s headache (not to mention other problems associated with drinking.
a psychiatrist and former British drug czar, has identified six compounds similar to benzodiazepines#a broad class of psychoactive drugs#that won t get you rip-roaring drunk
According to Nutt, the alcohol substitute would be a flavorless additive that you could put in a nonalcoholic drink.
what you need for dinner. The cart uses Microsoft s Kinect motion-sensor technology to track
Michelin-Star TV DINNERS Frozen food may soon be on par with anything you can get at a three-star restaurant.
Sous vide#a process in which food is heated over a very long period in a low-temperature water bath#has been used in high-end restaurants for more than a decade.
Cuisine Solutions, the company that pioneered sous vide (Keller hired it to train his chefs),
now supplies food to grocery stores and the U s. military. Your local Costco or Wegmans may sell perfectly cooked sous vide lamb shanks, osso buco or turkey roulade.
Unlike most meals in the freezer aisle, sous vide food can be reheated in a pot of boiling water
and still taste as if it were prepared just. And because sous vide makes it almost impossible to overcook food,
it s perfect for the home cook. Fortunately sous vide machines are becoming more affordable.
It s like the microwave was 30 years ago, #Keller says. 29. Reduce, Reuse, Masticate It s depressing to think how much food packaging there is in your kitchen right now#all those juice cartons, water bottles and ice-cream containers.
But what if you could eat them? We ve got to package in the same way nature does,
. And so he has devised a way to convert foods into shell-like containers and films that he calls Wikicells.
The newly wrapped ice cream and yogurt will be available later this month at the lab store in Paris,
with juice and tea coming within the next year or two. 30. The Constant Gardner Rather than spray water
director of the Technology Strategy Board s sustainable agriculture and food projects, said, Addressing animal health and welfare challenges and improving animal performance monitoring are vital pieces of the food security jigsaw.
The technologies developed through this project have the potential to benefit farming communities in the UK
and the need for sustainable food sources grow, solutions involving technology and urban farming become more prevalent.
It is really only a matter of time before our food crisis becomes crippling. In the past few days a number of interesting articles have been circulating,
all discussing genetically modified crops and starkly different versions of the future of food. One one hand we have the state of affairs in the US.
and health food instead of industrial commodities. This new GM corn variety is a joint project between Dow and Monsanto
Such spread has been documented for a while, but this latest is some pretty stark detail: Throughout North dakota, little yellow flowers dot thousands of miles of roadsides.
and just as-productive vision supported explicitly by food activists, and less-vocally but essentially by the UN as well.
as well as genuine concern about corporate control of food through that technology. by Mat Mcdermott via Treehugger Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati R
a time sensitive special such as hot bread just pulled from the over, or situational conditions such as announcing the sale of umbrellas during the start of a rainstorm. 11.)
Thinking beyond traditional delivery systems, flying drones could be used to deliver food, packages, water, change out the batteries in your home, remove trash and sewage,
Such devices may eventually be able to measure the level of cholesterol or alcohol in your blood and flash up an appropriate warning.
3d Food Printers-As we shop for apples in the grocery store, we find ourselves looking for the perfect apple.#
#Only a small percentage of apples grown on the farm are worthy of making it into the major leagues of food the fresh produce section of our grocery stores.
This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper
to 3d printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers. These aren t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising.
Instead, they are devices with the very real potential for turning real apples into perfect apples.
Future plant monitors will give us the ability to communicate#with our plants and produce far more sophisticated forms of food. 20.
Auquaponics Tech For those of you not familiar with the term, aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish,
They touch on jobs, education, crime, food supplies, and most importantly, the future. Join me as we take a look at the future through the eyes of the past. 10.
Much like the whack-a-mole game at video arcades, as one problem gets pounded down, another pokes its ugly head out.
Visions of the Great depression and its soup lines were haunting us like a reoccurring nightmare,
Continue reading here. 3.)The Coming Food Printer Revolution Would you buy a product that was advertised as Naturally grown, completely organic, printed food?#
#Anyone who has an apple tree growing in their yard knows how difficult it is to grow one that is worthy of eating straight off the tree.
As we shop for apples in the grocery store, we find ourselves looking for the perfect apple.#
#Only a small percentage of apples grown on the farm are worthy of making it into the major leagues of food the fresh produce section of our grocery stores.
This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper
to 3d printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers. These aren t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising.
Instead, they are devices with the very real potential for turning real apples into perfect apples.
Ten years earlier, in March of 1993, Hock gave a dinner speech at the Santa fe Institute where he described his unusual organizational theories in managing VISA,
they are constantly shooting behind the duck.##Similarly, whenever a column is written about the best paying jobs of the future, jobs like civil engineers, registered nurses,
The goal of food security was achieved in 2040 and Qatar is now more than 85 percent self-sufficient in food production
and self sufficient in water thanks to an affordable osmosis from salt water technique perfected by a young Qatari student at Texas A&m University in 2028
Food in Qatar is assembled commonly by nanomachines. This food is externally indistinguishable from natural food.
It can be made more wholesome as production can be controlled at the molecular level phasing out the crude genetic modification.
This technology decouples food production from the availability of natural resources. It saves a huge cost,
enabling restaurants to spend more on high quality, tasty ingredients and gourmet cooking techniques. The assembly method also improves hygiene,
With the national obesity and diabetes epidemics of the 2010s a distant memory, fastfood chains are a thing of the past.
Nevertheless, in certain areas traditional restaurants thrive, and worldwide Qatar is regarded as one of top destinations in the world for cultural,
of which use the same hydroponic food growing techniques perfected in Qatar) making it a truly intergalactic capital city.
They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.
They rubberneck, hotdog, and take pity on turtles, cause fender benders, pileups, and head-on collisions. They nod off at the wheel,
Levandowski keeps a collection of vintage illustrations and newsreels on his laptop, just to remind him of all the failed schemes
but they had a chicken-and-egg problem. To be had useful, they to be built on a large scale;
#oehe paid us in burritos,#Charles Smart, now a professor of mathematics at M. I t.,told me.#
#oealways the same burritos. But I remember thinking, I hope he likes me and lets me work on this.#
They added cameras, gyros, G. P. S. modules, computers, roll bars, and an electric motor to turn the wheel.
At the gourmet cafeterias that dot the campus, signs warn against#oetailgaters##orporate spies who might slink in behind an employee before the door swings shut.
Would he be interested in building a self-driving pizza delivery car? Within five weeks, he and a team of fellow Berkeley graduates and other engineers had re
Some convert sugar into medicines. Others create moisturizers that can be used in cosmetics. And still others make biofuel,
A vanilla flavoring that promises to be significantly cheaper than the costly extract made from beans grown in rain forests is scheduled to hit the markets in 2014.
They compare the spread of bio-factories to the large-scale burning of coal at the turn of the 20th century#a development with implications for carbon dioxide emissions
including synthetic versions of fragrances extracted from grass, coconut oil and saffron powder, as well as a gas used to make car tires.
When fed sugar, it produced energy and excreted alcohol and carbon dioxide. Humans have harnessed this power for centuries to make wine, beer, cheese and other products.
Could they tinker with some genes in the yeast to create a biological machine capable of producing medicine?
The next major product to be released is likely to be a vanilla flavoring by Evolva a Swiss company that has laboratories in the San francisco bay area.
Cultivated in the remote forests of Madagascar, Mexico and the West indies, natural vanilla is one of the world s most revered spices.
have 99 percent of the vanilla market but have failed to match the natural version s complexity.
Now scientists in a lab in Denmark believe they ve created a type of vanilla flavoring produced by yeast that they say will be more satisfying to the palate and cheaper at the same time.
whether the flavoring can be considered#oenatural.##Evolva boasts that it is, because only the substance used to produce the flavoring was modified genetically#not
what people actually consume.##oefrom my point of view it s fundamentally as natural as beer or bread,#said Evolva chief executive Neil Goldsmith,
who is a cofounder of the company.##oeneither brewer s or baker s yeast is identical to yeast in the wild.
I m comfortable that if beer is natural, then this is natural.##That justification has caused an uproar among some consumer protection and environmental groups.
They say that representing Evolva s laboratory-grown flavoring as something similar to vanilla extract from an orchid plant is deceptive,
and they have mounted a global campaign urging food companies to boycott the#oevanilla grown in a petri dish.##
##oeany ice-cream company that calls this all-natural vanilla would be committing fraud, #argues Jaydee Hanson, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Food safety,
a nonprofit public interest group based in Washington. Jim Thomas, a researcher for the ETC Group, said there is a larger issue that applies to all organisms produced by synthetic biology techniques:
What if they are released accidentally and evolve to have harmful characteristics?##oethere is no regulatory structure
Artemisinin is farmed by an estimated 100,000 people in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam and China and the vanilla plant by 200,000 in Madagascar, Mexico and beyond.
Evolva officials say they believe there will still be a strong market for artisan ingredients like vanilla from real beans
#oewe ve set the bar incredibly low, #he says. For the errors worrisome enough to require human hands back on the wheel,
#he said and then ticked off the goodies#oethe Android operating system, search, voice, social, maps, navigation, even Chauffeur.#
It s a catch-22, a classic chicken-and-egg problem: Which will come first,
when you re drunk and then go fetch another six-pack. Already NHTSA has mandated level-one technologies in every new car.
Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,
Fogquest http://www. fogquest. org Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries
and turns them into drinking water at a rate of roughly 4-5 gallons a day.
A high percentage of the products we buy in grocery stores contain water. Everything from pop, to juice, to vegetables, to beer, to soup,
and much more. Transporting water is expensive so what if the containers automatically added the water directly from the atmosphere once we took it home?
A University of Utah study in November 2012 confirmed that this could be done in a lab. Perfection of this technology could result in the potential end of tooth decay, gum disease, fillings,
They take footage from the many live video feeds around the world and use it to layer complex animations on top of Google earth,
It will use a donut-shaped magnetic field to contain gases that will reach temperatures comparable to those at the core of the sun, in excess of 150 million degrees C (270 million F),
working nights at an Air force Exchange Service Burger king as he built his book. In the late 1980s, there was a spontaneous move to Lincoln,
Nebr. to work on filament-wound structures#mix shafts for the food industry and rocket-motor casings.
She brought food to his desk when he was immersed too to realize his hunger. He s still doing the 7 a m. to 4 a m. days,
which means it takes pasta longer to cook in Denver than it does in Del Mar.
and herbs indoors in nutrient-rich vats. His business, in central Accra, is now booming.#
I m making a bigger difference in the lives of others by applying my knowledge and capital to food production,
While it s true that Sub-saharan africa as a whole still leads the world in poverty and food insecurity rates,
food production now outpaces population growth. In Ghana, for instance, farm output has jumped by 5 percent every year for the past 20 years,
Even infamously food-insecure Malawi and Ethiopia now grow record amounts of crops and even export surpluses to their neighbors.
Against the new reality, international food agencies that spent decades proclaiming Africa s inevitable doom are being forced to shift their rhetoric.
including the Gates Foundation, the International Food Policy Research Institute, Columbia University s Earth Institute,
and increasingly essential to a sustainable food economy for the entire world. 1. More Africans now live in cities Africa is the most rapidly urbanizing region on the planet.
Africa s city dwellers spend roughly half their incomes on food, and as their ranks have grown#y 4 percent per year#mall farmers located on the urban perimeters have responded,
offering food that s cheaper and fresher than what gets trucked in from further out.#
and he walks the walk by operating his own chicken farms. In Uganda, former vice president Gilbert Bukenya has promoted cattle ownership
and herbs are up to eight times those of traditional farms, and the plants grow faster. More rapid maturation in turn means a faster turnaround on his investment.
Cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate, commands double what it did in the 1990s, which means the farmers in Ghana who grow it are together collecting $2 billion annually.
Africa s#oeforgotten#crops, including cassava, sunflower seeds, and cowpeas, have in the last two decades rapidly expanded in production, bringing unexpected benefits.#
a protein-rich root that in Latin america goes by the name manioc or tapioca and
Dried cassava is increasingly being turned into an easily stored flour called gari in West Africa, that is convenient to cook
Food brokers, for instance, can aggregate the efforts of small holders quickly and inexpensively; what s more, much of the software they use to do that is designed by and for African programmers.
Multinational food broker VP Group regularly buys from about 5000 small farms near Nairobi. Thanks to text messages and the mobile Internet, it can now collect produce from the field,
In the mid-2000s, Uganda s largest cooking oil company, the Mukwano Group, rapidly enlisted 100 000 small farmers to grow sunflower seeds by using text messaging
In the last decade, sunflower seed production has tripled more than.##oefarm radio#is another vital channel for agricultural innovation.
European opposition to GM food remains high, and U s. donors, such as the Gates Foundation, have been reluctant to promote the bioengineering of African crops.
too. 7. Government support for food producers is getting better Everyone agrees that African farmers remain heavily inhibited by poor governance.
many African governments ease the importation of foreign-grown food. In Ghana, for instance, canned tomato paste from Italy, frozen chickens from Brazil,
and rice from Thailand can be sold below cost, killing local production. The Italian, Brazilian, and Thai governments subsidize those goods,
Trade in foodstuffs between neighboring African countries is hampered often by misguided government rules. In Tanzania, ham-handed bans on exports of some staples have resulted in food rotting in the fields.
But government aid to farmers is improving. Kenya s support for small dairy farms is an encouraging example.
and South Sudan, where local shortages of food can be severe and frequent. With more customers now within easier reach,
#oeuganda is now a food basket for East Africa, #stated the October 2012 World bank report#oeafrica Can Feed Africa.#
#8. Women are getting better educated, and that will lead to better farm outcomes In Sub-saharan africa,
because women produce up to 80 percent of the region s food. At urban markets, legions of#oemarket women#buy food wholesale
Jessica Sakwa and her husband, Ken, run a peanut and cowpea farm in eastern Uganda.
The United nations Food and agriculture organization has caught the spirit, introducing a worldwide campaign around#oeclimate-smart agriculture.##Climate change can also be managed by greater reliance on drought-tolerant crops.
and sorghum in tests of 24 climate-prediction and crop-suitability models. The best hedge against potential food shortages created by climate change?
Bringing Africa s hundreds of millions of hectares of fertile unused farmland into production. 10.
and by the early 1960s, they supplied 8 percent of the world s tradable food.
A remaining challenge is the equitable distribution of food. Part of the solution lies in improved links between African countries whose postcolonial borders often don t make geographic sense and place artificial barriers between areas of surplus food production and areas of deficit.
In a recent paper Steven Haggblade identifies#oebreadbasket#regions that routinely produce food surpluses and finds that most are close to areas that must import food.
Kenya, for instance, leads East Africa in dairy and wheat production, while neighboring Uganda produces surpluses of maize and other staples;
yet parts of western and northern Kenya face a chronic struggle for food. What Africa needs most#nd is increasingly getting,
Haggblade reports#s more commerce between the food-rich and the food-poor. To be sure, hunger remains a specter in Africa for a small but significant minority of people.
There continue to be hunger seasons and hunger zones. But for many Africans, the experience of hunger is shifting#nd in the right direction.
in the central part of the country, their struggle to provide enough food was heart-wrenching.
And yet collective action has ended now largely Malawi s seasonal food shortages. The government began giving farm families such as the Bairds a discount on the purchase of fertilizer and hybrid seeds
whether Sub-saharan africa can produce enough food to feed its people. It can#nd can feed some of the rest of the world too.
So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America s beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.
For the nonprofit, conserving America s rivers meant growing America s barley, one of the primary ingredients in one of our favorite cold beverages
and computer-controlled irrigation covering thousands of acres that conserve millions of gallons of water each day.#
#oeas a brewer, we know that the area we can have the biggest impact in reducing water usage is within the agricultural supply chain,
and bright-orange bananas fortified with nutrients to improve the diets of people in the poorest countries.
And that, in turn, could conceivably reduce the public disquiet over GM foods. Or maybe not.
chickens, and sheep were produced. What made Dolly a sensation, however, was the method by which she was cloned.
and placing it in the nucleus of an egg that has had its own genetic material removed.
scientist have used SCNT to clone other mammals including cat, dog, deer, horse, mule, ox, rabbit and rat.
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