07/09/2017
The schizophrenia of our consumeristic food system: on the one hand, we want traceability, information, transparency and proximity. On the other hand, the same people who can afford a farmers market are increasingly using a system where everything is kept invisible. The kitchen. The cook. The deliverer. Food is distributed as it was a technological tool. Ready to be consumed in the bubble that our houses have become. Maybe while binge-watching without talking.
A slow - but visible - transition is happening. The forth industrial revolution is changing the way in which food is conceived, produced, imagined, distributed. And food workers, food producers, the communality of eating, food as sharing, are crashed under the weight of machines that cannot unionize, complain or desire to have a better life.
Just Eat, whose website allows customers to order food from local takeaways which is then delivered by staff from the individual restaurants, has delivered more than 1,000 meals via its fleet of 10 robots in London.
