Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The audacious #postscarcity plan to #endhunger with 3-D printed food

Per NASA via @Temporary Human:
“A day when every kitchen has a 3D printer, and the earth’s 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store. Contractor’s vision would mean the end of food waste, because the powder his system will use is shelf-stable for up to 30 years, so that each cartridge, whether it contains sugars, complex carbohydrates, protein or some other basic building block, would be fully exhausted before being returned to the store. Ubiquitous food synthesizers would also create new ways of producing the basic calories on which we all rely. Since a powder is a powder, the inputs could be anything that contain the right organic molecules.”

Sunday, May 12, 2013

America: Utopian Project from Day One. @rortybomb #BasicIncome #EndPoverty

Washington Post @rortybomb:

"taking a moment to think ... shows that the core projects of balancing what markets do in our economy and the general commitment to democracy would still continue, and could even be amplified, with a universal basic income."