A World Of Abundance
Once we digitised music and video it became so cheap it was everywhere for virtually zero cost. Then we digitised communication and it is so cheap now it is virtually free. What if we digitise energy, using wind and solar managed by digital automated software. It will be at almost zero cost. What if we digitise our food by putting supermarkets online, with robotic controls selecting our products from warehouse shelving, and delivering it to us in automated pods. The future of virtually zero cost goods and services is right in front of us.
Food
Much of our food is grown and picked with machinery. Computer Vision can identify good from bad fruit and vegetables and sort them. Soon enough the whole farming process will be automated. Much will be grown in poly tunnels and factory style buildings. Animal meat will be substituted with cultivated meat, where meat is grown without a live animal. Already meat alternatives such as quorn can be factory produced which will lead to complete automation of the process. The food will be delivered in driverless trucks to local warehouses for automated sorting into individual driverless pods for each customer, which will then be delivered without driver to each house. This digitisaton of the whole process costs almost nothing once the setup costs have been met. Software can be reproduced for almost zero cost, replacing the high cost of human labour. It won’t be long until you order everything you need from your device – every year we are buying more online. No more heated stores with high rents and many workers. Here there is a scenario where there is an almost zero cost to produce, transport and sell food, not to mention many goods.
What is required?
- More cycle lanes which could be dual use for automated pods transporting goods and food
- Reducing meat consumption
- Reducing waste by sharing excess food
- Just in time delivery to reduce waste
- Food production factories to increase automation
Current Orion Media Projects
Orion Media is pushing for a world where everything is digitised.
Our Project: Report into global food production
Analysis of variables in the global food market.
