Unlike bill g (who thinks it's energy production and storage) I think food growing and delivery would be the next big thing. Imagine if we can make kitchens redundant. Nobody has a gym in their house. Kitchens should be equally rare.
If anything what technology like this offers is growing food closer to the areas where it is currently transported which in turn would remove those costs from the process plus lots of related effects on traffic and pollution.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/24/homes-withou...
Plenty of people in major cities no longer cook.
> Food preparation is so varied who would want to pass the duty off to others.
Are you joking? You don't see why people would want to spend the time they use to prepare food to do other things just because it's varied?
There are over 700 restaurants on doordash delivering to my location right now, by dinner I've seen that number go as high as 1,500.
How many lifetimes would it take to be able to recreate even 10% of those menus?
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I can cook, but to me it's like changing my oil or cleaning my apartment. Some people love to make a face and go "you don't cook?!?!?!"
Yeah... not everyone considers cooking "artistic expression", imagine not understanding that.
This is only a real problem in America.
I'm from Ghana, fast food is exploding there, look at India, look at Asia.
Look at Europe... https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/05/21/183326...
It's a tradeoff of time and money in most cases.
For oil changes, for instance, if I live in a place with a garage and I have my own tools, it's faster for me to do it myself than to pay someone else to do it: for the latter, I have to schedule an appointment, take time off from work (using PTO, or coming in late/leaving early), drive to the place, sit and wait around while they do it, and then worry that they screwed it up (which is pretty common). Plus the prices are much, much cheaper if I buy the supplies myself instead of paying inflated prices at a shop. Of course, if I live in a place without a garage or other place to do it myself, then I might not have much choice.
Cleaning my apartment: I'm not sure how this is helpful to outsource. Perhaps if you hire a small crew, it'll be done quite a bit faster than you can do it yourself, but you still have to take time off from work (or your weekend), then sit there and oversee these people to make sure they're not stealing your stuff (very common), while they do the cleaning. And having strangers walking around your home is, to me at least, very uncomfortable.
With cooking, you have to consider the time needed for you to go to the restaurant and pick up the order (probably waiting when you're there, unless the food is sitting and getting cold) and drive home. Or, you can pay for delivery, but this costs extra. Now, if you live in a very dense city where the restaurant is right around the corner, or delivery is super-cheap (because it's right across the street), then this might not be much of a factor, but in much of America it is. It takes me about 15 minutes or so to cook dinner usually; it would take me much more time than that to go someplace else to get take-out, and by the time I get home it'll be cold, and it'll cost 5-10x as much as making it myself. Plus you have to worry about getting sick due to cooks not washing their hands or not storing or preparing food properly, which is very very common in America. If I lived in someplace like Singapore (as referenced in a sister comment here), I'd probably get food on the way home frequently, but not in America.
Honestly it can be one on the smallest investments a person/household can make with such amazing returns.
Just never think about cleaning ever again? It’s (sorta) possible.
It's just a task that has to be done.
Some dealers will do a better job than me and some will do a worse job, but for the most part at the end of the day the task is usually done.
Likewise with cooking.
Some experiences will be worse, it might cost more it might take a while, but at the end of the day on average I will have food that is enjoyable.
And if eating out is 2x eating in, it doesn't matter to most people if they can afford both.
Huh? Maybe in your country it's like that, but here in America it's more like 5x, unless you're eating fast-food garbage (and even that's probably 3x). It's expensive to eat out in this country, once you count the 20% for the stupid tip.
2x, 3x, 5x, it's all the same order of magnitude. If it's not prohibitively expensive people will do it.
Seems like we're trying to optimise every single aspects of our lives to be "more productive/efficient" and we're throwing what makes life "life" with it.
Cooking is good fun and the only way to control what's going in your body.
You're free to make and clean and keep pest-free your own. Kitchen if you're so inclined.
My fantasies haven't accounted for a kid yet I should confess .
I think there are several types of restaurant like that already.
And maybe there's staff to clean up when you're done? Doesn't sound like a terrible thing to me. People love to take cooking classes which are a similar experience.
Maybe if I'm trying to make something fancy, a fancy kitchen which is equipped with stuff I don't have would be useful? Paired with cooking lessons?
But if I want to make pancakes on the weekend before I put on my coat and boots, I need a kitchen at home.
Otherwise, you're going to make some really fancy meal, then pack it up, bring it home, and by the time you get home and unpack it and plate it, it'll be stone cold. What's the point of making fancy food if it's going to be cold when you eat it, or you have to microwave it?
Most fantasies don't.
It wasn't too long ago that nobody had running hot water in their homes either, and that also sucked.
Personally, I find cooking meditative and relaxing after a long day in my cubicle and I enjoy eating what I make myself sans excess oils, food colors, etc.