From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Sep 07 1998 - 11:26:16 MDT
"Wesley R. Schwein" <wesleyrschwein@unn.unisys.com> writes:
> Has anyone speculated, in SF stories or elsewhere, about the effects of
> nanotech on cuisine? Other than mass-produced rice for Chinese peasants, I
> can't remember any.
I think you could do all sorts of exciting things if the food was
active - it interacted with your tastebuds not just passively but
actively changing the taste over time. Imagine ripples of taste
crescendoing over your tounge in synch with the dinner music.
Note that with nanotech food design becomes a software industry, and
everybody can have the public domain grilled veal chop madeira with
vintage wine somebody scanned - but you have to pay for the exclusive
version (after all, the pd version is always the same) or the handmade
version.
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