{"id":13823,"date":"2015-03-24T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:57","slug":"how-to-design-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/how-to-design-the-future","title":{"rendered":"How to design the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Read more articles by Jon Turney\" href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/author\/jon-turney\/\">Jon Turney<\/a> \u2014 Aeon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"http:\/\/cdn-imgs-mag.aeon.co\/images\/2015\/03\/Digitarians-Dunne-and-Raby-1024x641.jpg\" \/><br \/> Picture yourself in a supermarket aisle in 2050. These new \u2018magic meatballs\u2019, brightly coloured for the kids, seem worth a try. Better have some of the meat powder too, one of the more established products from the mass-manufacturers of cultured meat \u2013 you can make that creamy meat-based fondue that always satisfies. You don\u2019t fancy the meat ice-cream today, but there\u2019s still time left for a trip to the deli counter, for some expensive, but delicious \u2018rustic\u2019 meat, matured in special vats, or perhaps some knitted steaks. And you can pile your cart secure in the knowledge that no animals were harmed in the making of any of these offerings.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, <i>in vitro<\/i> meat is a laboratory venture, yielding expensive and unappetising-looking muscle fibres that might be fit for filler in pies or burgers. But suppose the researchers\u2019 ambitions are realised? Where will the technology go? How will it be marketed and consumed? Who might want it, and what for? These questions animate <i>The In Vitro Meat Cook Book<\/i> (2014) by Koert van Mensvoort and Hendrik-Jan Grievink, whose recipes for hypothetical products are sampled above. The authors\u2019 open-ended, imaginative approach makes the book a good example of a new way of questioning technology: design fiction. As questions about technological choices trouble us more and more, it could be that design fiction, not science, has the better answers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/technology\/how-design-fiction-imagines-future-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Turney \u2014 Aeon Picture yourself in a supermarket aisle in 2050. These new \u2018magic meatballs\u2019, brightly coloured for the kids, seem worth a try. Better have some of the meat powder too, one of the more established products from the mass-manufacturers of cultured meat \u2013 you can make that creamy meat-based fondue that always [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52174,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/52174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}