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"Writing about the future, I have a vested interest in there being a future for me to write about."
- John Brunner
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| Synthetic Food Dispenser | ||
| A machine that could make whatever food you wanted from basic elements. |
This is a very early use of the idea of a food synthesizer that could whip up whatever you wanted without needing to grow fruits and vegetables or breed animals for meat.
| The restaurant had the food displayed directly, and I made a choice. The food was three hundred thousand years old, I suppose. I didn't know, and the machines that served it to me didn't care, for they made things synthetically, you see, and perfectly. |
| Technovelgy from Twilight,
by John W. Campbell. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1934 Additional resources -
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| A Beautiful Visualization Of Compact Food |
| Thermostabilized Wet Meat Product (NASA Prototype) |
| Edible Meat-Like Fungus Like Barbara Hambly's Slunch? |
| Holland Factory 3D Printing 500 Tons Of Steak Per Month |
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