Next-gen kitchens: Three scenarios for home cooks
I’m the resident sci-fi/fantasy nerd here in the Food + Home department. I grew up binging on shows like “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Firefly,” “Battlestar Galactica” and more recently, “Black Mirror” and “Westworld.” If I’m not scouring cookbooks, odds are you’ll find my nose buried in a book by Kim Stanley Robinson , Connie Willis or Octavia Butler. So when the discussion about Future of Food came up, I decided to channel a bit of the “What if?” spirit, imagining three future scenarios of a typical Sunday in a San Francisco home kitchen . How will technological advances impact how we think about and interact with food? Future #1: Science dominates Picture, if you will, a “Jetsons”-like, super-shiny, gadget and convenience-heavy world where 3-D food printers, drone food delivery , laser dishwashers and other interactive, Web- connected smart appliances reign supreme . 7 a.m. The scent of freshly brewed coffee wakes you. In the kitchen, the Coffee Maestro, a home kitchen-frien...
