[-empyre-] future scenario workshops and the imagination

[Renate Terese Ferro]

Dear Shu Lea, Amanda, and all, 
Shu Lea wrote: 
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WE  CONTROL THE FOOD. WE CONTROL YOU.
SERVICE STATIONS are set up to pipeline STANDARD meals-
EAT.
MEAT. VEGG. FISH.

This is the year 2030 . 
No one SERVES.
The government  supplies ROBOT service in dining  facilities.
the ROBOTS DELIVER.

In the wasteland of wireless dis-connection,
What is left is encrypted, coded electronic sound beeps.
TRANSMIT and ABSORB.
The diners ORDER. The robots DELIVER.
ALL in encrypted coded electro RAVE.
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Ha!  Shu Lea have you been in the new “updated” Newark International Airport?   The poetic description surprisingly sounds like 2016.  Where seating for weary travelers once existed there are “food bars” that have been installed in the center of the airport walkways between GATES.  Sequences of Individual kiosks are perched rather high off the ground to enable the traveler to be seated, punch in her food order to an automatized server, payment is required via card before the food is served including tip which is automatically included, and then finally the food is brought forth.  The experience is not human to human but human to machine.  The sense of sharing a meal with a another human is not possible because of the singularity of the designed seating and ordering unit. 

Yes 2016. Renate

On 3/19/16, 6:05 AM, "empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of shu lea cheang" <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of shulea at earthlink.net> wrote:

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