In the future, your kitchen will think for itself
On November 30, 2017,
Kaya Yurieff from CNN published a article titled In the future, your kitchen will think for itself . We're still at least 10 to 15 years away from a fully connected and fully alive kitchen, most of this technology already exists. The biggest challenge is getting devices made by different companies to communicate. Todays world is filled with technology and runs on it almost every part of the hose is starting to run off technology and now kitchens are very soon going to be running on its own. Soon the future 3-D printers are going to be making foods and making such big meals for the house. The day will come where man doesn't have to cook. While some tech companies trying to keep up with technology and continue to crank out smart kitchen gadgets, the maker of a 3D food printer called Foodini, sees a future with fewer appliances and making a splash into the kitchen. Soon we wont need cooks and chefs because will have robots or machines to make food for us. Technology is now focusing on how to make our lives easy and fast and have less worries.
While letting machines do all the heavy lifting for us sounds like my kind of place, we need to think about the consequences first. Many of the tasks robots will be expected to perform would be low income, hard labor work. Driving, cooking, and other jobs that are filled largely by people who cannot, or are in the process of gaining higher education. Taking away those jobs would create a critical gap in people’s ability to advance within society. These people would lose access to the work they are qualified for, lose the income necessary to pay for education to gain other qualifications, and leave many without anything to do. They would change from the ones maintaining the foundations of our country to a massive drain of resources as we try to figure out what to do with all these people who are suddenly unqualified for any legitimate work. Before we turn these jobs over to our future robot overlords, we need to find a solution to the problems it’s going to create.
ReplyDeleteI think that having everything being taken over my machinery and offering control to robots is detrimental to human society. I find it interesting that people are fond of these ideas and look forward to them. I feel as if with this implemented it will only be the start to everything that humans are surrounded with to turn into being robotized. At the rate we are going, the world is on a fast track to obesity if everything is being done for us. Something as little as preparing your own meals on a daily basis is the most physical activity some people get. Not only will this cause major problems as far as human involvement but it will decrease jobs all across the nation. I agree that technology is focused on making our lives easier and less worrisome but I feel as if in the process of this a lot of negative side effects are being overlooked. With machinery at our disposable it will cause a huge decrease in jobs and people will find themselves being more and more unemployed. Having humans become in habit of doing minimal effort will only encourage people against meeting other members of society and soon enough the world will be isolated and lonely even while having the presence of the population. Another problem that is possible is the machinery to provide these services being so expensive and while they are able to take away other jobs they are also unavailable to be used for people who cannot afford to have a fancy machine making their food. The only jobs that will actually be available will be for the people who are designing these machines, but eventually there will be a program that designs new inventions and machines on it's own too and then these people too will be out of business. In the end I see this future kitchen being the start to a downhill path for human improvement. I don't want to have my kitchen think when I am fully capable of thinking for myself.
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