Posted on 08/27/2018 3:01:21 PM PDT by Simon Green
It’s the year 2038. The word “flavor” has fallen into disuse. Sugar is the new cigarettes, and we have managed to replace salt with healthy plants. We live in a society in which we eat fruit grown using genetics. We drink synthetic wine, scramble eggs that do not come from chickens, grill meat that was not taken from animals, and roast fish that never saw the sea.
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Agriculture is now mostly in the hands of the young generation, 70% of whom are college graduates and refer to themselves as “urban farmer-scientists.” They grow all kinds of plants in containers placed throughout cities, using efficient hydroponic setups and the latest technology to narrow the gap between citizens and their food. Farms are now located in cities and can be readily visited, but they now resemble an Apple Store more than a traditional farmstead.
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We live in an age of ultrapersonalization, but at the same time, we lack any kind of privacy. All of our nutrition follows a plan, there is practically no freedom of choice. The initial trigger was China’s pilot program–based on the launch of its big data and artificial intelligence system that assigned a rating to each Chinese citizen, what they called the social credit plan.
Once Chinese businesses entered the food market en masse, they applied their technology and control model throughout the world. The focus on climate change and food safety led the EU to create a kind of food police. This organization uses technology and the ongoing carbon footprint left by each citizen to trace everything we eat and monitor our level of food waste. The sum of all these elements results in our CFS (Citizen Food Score).
They are able to analyze everything, from the sandwich we take from a vending machine–1,441 grams of CO2 equivalent, equal to the emissions generated by driving a car for 10 miles–to our overall eating habits. This means that when you try to use your fingerprint on a vending machine, sometimes it will withhold the product, either because it would exceed your predetermined carbon level or because you have already ingested the necessary calories for that day.
An algorithm calculates our level of consumption and the waste we generate without needing to check the bags in our garbage containers, simply based on what we buy at the supermarket, the number of people in our household, and their consumption and habits. This is then used to impose significant fines when a high level of waste is detected.
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Any customers who still visit restaurants in person find a space full of sensors that track operations in the kitchen and diners’ movements. Most restaurants download their diners’ FCS (Food Citizen Score) and flavor predictive algorithm (culinary DNA) as they walk through the door, to obtain information about weight, height, dietary requirements, and physical condition goals. Their applications will then provide personalized nutritional advice and recommend meal options. Customers also provide a saliva sample, so that the restaurant can cross-reference their genetic makeup against updated studies, in order to let them know if they have a significant probability of a genetic predisposition to food intolerances and also to inform the specific dietary contents of the perfect menu they will put together.
The Lear jet leftists expect to form the core of the global Inner Party. There they will continue to enjoy the finest foods and most advanced gadgets the world has to offer — while deciding your fate for you.
If you work very hard and show them your unwavering loyalty you may be permitted to join the global Outer Party. You will be allowed occasional servings of meat - and air conditioning on a rationed basis.
The rest of us will eat insectss and swelter — for the good of the planet.
The way things are going, we'll all be eating tacos, bean & rice. Nada mas.
Twenty years ago, I loved BK’s whoppers. And I still do, just one per meal.
If there’s a Global Government Suicide Booths will be the in thing
I love reading leftist fantasy fan fiction! I wonder how the plan to track the deer I shoot in my backyard, dress in my shed and stick in my old deep freeze out in the garage?
In this totalitarian fantasy, you will not be allowed to live in the country, own guns, have a deep freeze, a car, or garage.
You will have no privacy. An algorithm controls what you can buy and what you cannot.
Total fantasy, but the idea of total control through complete tracking of what you do is 70% here. Consider facebook, google, twitter, etc. All of that is being tracked. Those companies already have huge influence on what you are allowed to see and read.
Consider if the U.S. government and these companies work together to control what you are allowed to buy.
Another brave new world
No thanks
Apparently they forgot that Demolition Man was a movie, not a goal.
More like fried rice!
I will eat deer that are abundant on my land. They are very tasty. Also the occasional wild turkey that are most delectable. I have rattlesnakes also. I kind of like them but if hungry they are on the menu. Actually they taste pretty good. I am not into dog meat but if hungry the coyotes are food. Lots of birds on my land. I will not starve.
“...Consider facebook, google, twitter, etc. ...”
Why?
70% of people in the U.S. get major amounts of their information about the world from those sources.
And anyone who ventures out of the sterile LA or New York City Megalopolis areas, administered by King Merciful Obuma the snowflake god, are ground into fish food or fed to the hogs by the heavily armed Mad Max rural overlords.
Or very tasty rat burgers.
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