Artificial meat? Food for thought by 2050 | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views
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even with new technologies such as genetic modification and nanotechnology, hundreds of millions of people may still go hungry owing to a combination of climate change, water shortages and increasing food consumption.
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Many low-tech ways are considered to effectively increase yields, such as reducing the 30-40% food waste that occurs both in rich and poor countries. If developing countries had better storage facilities and supermarkets and consumers in rich countries bought only what they needed, there would be far more food available.
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wo "wild cards" could transform global meat and milk production. "One is artificial meat, which is made in a giant vat, and the other is nanotechnology, which is expected to become more important as a vehicle for delivering medication to livestock."
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Red Plenty by Francis Spufford: Science Fiction - 0 views
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In the USSR writers of science fiction had the future as a semi-official responsibility. Whatever they invented, they were expected to endorse the radiance to come. But since the future, in Soviet SF as in every other kind, is a refraction of the present anyway, the scope was large for sly commentary on the present, and deniable ironisation of it on terms far freer than in realist Soviet literature, especially when the SF was being written by the brilliantly self-possessed Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
Janelle Monae turns rhythm and blues into science fiction - 0 views
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Art Deco is the new Steampunk