Cashierless stores of the future and lab grown meat?
I took a quick dive into a rapid fire tech podcast called Clockwise. Hilarious and insightful, it wasn't hard to form an opinion on their divisive topics.
Scientific Cannibalism
https://www.relay.fm/clockwise/235
Walmart Cashierless, Checkout free stores.
Logistically it’s a total nightmare. Personally I hate self checkout, I prefer to deal with a person even if I don’t want to interact with people. Feelings aside, it seems like a neat idea but the reality of making it work with the actual demographic that frequents these places seems impossible. First off I just started using android pay on my phone. I recently went to Los angeles for a vacation, excited to use this tech more often only to find no one accepted it. I was perplexed as i was certain they were ahead of the milwaukee curve. Then it dawned on me, Milwaukee got the chip at the end of the conversion, while LA and the international community has been in an optional chip state for nearly 10 years. Our machines were newer and equip for NFC data transfer and theirs were older first gen chip readers.
Roll out. I’ve been to several walmarts and the majority of them I wouldn’t expect anyone to be equip with google or apple pay in their pockets. It’s a cool novelty project that works well in seattle but will take over 10 years to reach the general public. There is still a large part of the population without bank accounts and as time moves on we are nearing a huge fork of what people have and have adapted to and what people haven’t or cannot afford.
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it!
Lab Grown Meat
Yes Please! Wait..wait.. Lab grown human meat!? Uhm no thank you.
Earlier in the week I purchased Pea-Milk from the grocery store. Its higher in protein than any other nut/legume milk substitute and it was really good. I don’t have much a problem with milk, I love cheese but I ethically think milk is kinda weird. Why not human milk? Well humans eat like shit and farming people is well a no no and everyone thinks its gross! Why is a cow better?! So I digress, I will drink my substitute.
I have tried pretty much every meat substitute and cooked with them well and correctly and they all have their merits. My holdover is the fat. When I cook I calculate the fat into what i’m making and the natural salt content as well. Try making a stock from a meat substitute. Ethically I don’t really care too much with meat. What I care about is what makes meat good vs bad, stress and activity, proximity, freshwater, sunlight living conditions. I don’t want to get weirded out by my meat’s texture or appearance knowing it came from how it was raised. But if it was not alive with a brain and a life intended for something other than my belly I think it would be worth trying out. It’s worth considering if the market could afford the cost of production and what mass production and streamlining production could do to quality as well. For now, I’d try Lab grown meat as a novelty and await my Full line of soylent green whent eh tech catches up.
Scientific Cannibalism
https://www.relay.fm/clockwise/235
Walmart Cashierless, Checkout free stores.
Logistically it’s a total nightmare. Personally I hate self checkout, I prefer to deal with a person even if I don’t want to interact with people. Feelings aside, it seems like a neat idea but the reality of making it work with the actual demographic that frequents these places seems impossible. First off I just started using android pay on my phone. I recently went to Los angeles for a vacation, excited to use this tech more often only to find no one accepted it. I was perplexed as i was certain they were ahead of the milwaukee curve. Then it dawned on me, Milwaukee got the chip at the end of the conversion, while LA and the international community has been in an optional chip state for nearly 10 years. Our machines were newer and equip for NFC data transfer and theirs were older first gen chip readers.
Roll out. I’ve been to several walmarts and the majority of them I wouldn’t expect anyone to be equip with google or apple pay in their pockets. It’s a cool novelty project that works well in seattle but will take over 10 years to reach the general public. There is still a large part of the population without bank accounts and as time moves on we are nearing a huge fork of what people have and have adapted to and what people haven’t or cannot afford.
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it!
Lab Grown Meat
Yes Please! Wait..wait.. Lab grown human meat!? Uhm no thank you.
Earlier in the week I purchased Pea-Milk from the grocery store. Its higher in protein than any other nut/legume milk substitute and it was really good. I don’t have much a problem with milk, I love cheese but I ethically think milk is kinda weird. Why not human milk? Well humans eat like shit and farming people is well a no no and everyone thinks its gross! Why is a cow better?! So I digress, I will drink my substitute.
I have tried pretty much every meat substitute and cooked with them well and correctly and they all have their merits. My holdover is the fat. When I cook I calculate the fat into what i’m making and the natural salt content as well. Try making a stock from a meat substitute. Ethically I don’t really care too much with meat. What I care about is what makes meat good vs bad, stress and activity, proximity, freshwater, sunlight living conditions. I don’t want to get weirded out by my meat’s texture or appearance knowing it came from how it was raised. But if it was not alive with a brain and a life intended for something other than my belly I think it would be worth trying out. It’s worth considering if the market could afford the cost of production and what mass production and streamlining production could do to quality as well. For now, I’d try Lab grown meat as a novelty and await my Full line of soylent green whent eh tech catches up.
it will be cashless . it will be humanless.
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