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Except that, for many, eating is a social activity that is enjoyed, not just outside of the home, but especially in the home.

For many, time around the dinner table is a highlight. Inviting people into your home becomes more hospitable with the addition of food and drink. Even if it is not a full meal, taking all means of food production from the home seems like a step back.

Also, when someone is sick, should they have to go out to get food? Wouldn't it be better to be able to have something in the fridge?

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Yeah, at some point hyper efficiency seems much like a dystopian nightmare. At some point we need to enjoy the human condition and slow the hell down.

Taken to the next step, food isn't necessary and you just get nutrients intravenously. A step further and you just skip the whole messy body thing and go digital.

Not quite there yet, so I'll stick with my hacking at meals.

Do you believe that in 100 years, most houses will have kitchens and people will cook for themselves? I don't think so.

Until we get something akin to a replicator [1], I think we will. I would propose that even afterwards, there will still be some who will cook the "old fashioned way".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)

Yes because cooking is not just a physical chore. It's how people customize and decide what to suit their personal tastes, and it's an action that requires thinking and intent. The act of choosing one option over the other given variety.

Unless you get every single possible option through some magical food provider, you will still have to put in work towards the food you eat. But even then, if I got to eat burritos every day (my favorite food), I would still eat something else.

This is all moot, because for a lot of people cooking is fun and a social activity.

Yes

My guess is that in a hundred years people will either not need to eat, and thus few will have kitchens, or people will need to eat and will generally be more resource-poor than today, thus requiring them to have kitchens and to use them more often than we do.

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