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- | ====Closed-loop Industrial Revolution=== | + | ====Transform=== |
- | Disruptive progress in technology brought out strong mastering of manipulation of matter, | + | (one of four [[food scenarios]] on the topic of [[food futures]]) |
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- | ===Food=== | + | Disruptive |
- | In terms of food, a wide range of artificial food is now available. Such techniques have been used to produce cost-effective healthy food, but also luxury extravagant & specialized items. For instance, more and more nano-breweries | + | Nearly every industry |
- | The progress in closed-loop production systems awakened the old dream of space traveling. Astrogastronomy is quickly developing, with an emphasis | + | A wide range of cost-effective healthy food is now available, alongside extravagant, |
- | The evolution of industry also led to changes in the way food is delivered. Swarm of drones fly all across | + | In this food and health conscious society wellness and design are closely linked together. Food design became a valuable creative expertise in closed loop nutrition. Aestheticised designer foods evolved into technologically enhanced, bio-inspired forms, shapes and colours, micronutrients that carry customised drugs allowing humans to enhance our senses. Food is not only seen as fuel for our bodies, but as mutation agents able to adapt our anatomies. Dermatologists noticed the emergence |
- | ===Health Effects=== | + | Human health is seen as intrinsically linked to health of our environment. The use of antibiotics has become highly regulated in closed-loop food production. While known illnesses are well managed, society is frequently shaken by the emergence of new diseases. There are many unforeseen effects of producing so much of our food in hermetically enclosed technospheres. Reaching the limits of Closed Loop industry, scientific research has moved to previously marginalised domains such as species cohabitation and communication. Northern Europe is known for the excellence of its research in Plant Neurobiology (especially after the Nobel Prize was awarded to the Urban Plant Well-Being Research Group from Edinburgh University). Inverness University was also in the spotlight after publishing the final maps of the Human Microbiome Project. Globally, science education overcome a major shift, allowing shorter “supply chains” from information to wisdom. |
- | Regarding health effects, the use of antibiotics has become highly regulated in closed-loop food production, as its progressive accumulation was threatening plants, animal and human health and increasing | + | ====Notes==== |
- | ====World-Scale Permaculture Design Emergence==== | + | {{> |
- | The industry now working almost fully in closed loops, the pressure on natural ressources has massively dropped. This led to a massive rewilding and to the blossoming of permaculture-driven design. The emergence of vegetal cities, based on thriving food forests, made the old quest for bucolic landscapes vanish. Micro-supply chains appeared, as it is now possible to collect fresh fruits and vegetables from the trees while wandering in the citiy. | ||
- | ====Science==== | ||
- | With such a radical change in industry and urbanism, scientific research has now moved to quite different questions. Northern Europe is known for the excellence of its research in Plant Neurobiology, | ||
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- | ====Aesthetics==== | ||
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- | Besides science, aesthetics also radically evolved. Food design is a valuable creative expertise, which closed-loop industries try to harness for both their mass and extravagant products. Bio-inspired forms, shapes and colors are now combined with the more technical inspiration into which closed-loop industries tapped to emerge. Next generation swarm of delivery drones display new colors and shapes inspired by south-American rainforest birds. | ||
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- | ====Biology==== | ||
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- | Finally, even our anatomies have started to evolve. Dermatologists noticed the emergence of harmless specific cutaneous signs when the level of some toxins were higher tha average. Some animals refuse instinctively food polluted with open-loop industry toxic waste, and researchers are currently investigating what seems to be new tastebuds which appeared on their tongues. |