From kale to cherries scientists are using CRISPR to create new kinds of foods
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Oddly if a plant could have evolved “that way naturally” even if you genetically re-engineer it then it’s not a GMO. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Cows get cancelled as whipped cream without the cow becomes a reality
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cows need to eat food, crops, fart alot, and need water and land, this new way to create cream just needs a factory space … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Unilevers first 3D printed metamaterial chocolates take eating to a whole new level
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New technologies and materials are transforming all our foods and our eating experiences, and this is just another example of how. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
Researchers turn plants into biological computers to grow better crops
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By turning nature into a biological computer researchers can get plants to do all kinds of things they could never do before and design better crops. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from...
At over 200,000 burgers a day this cultivated meat factory will be the world’s biggest
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you don’t need animals to make meat you don’t need to feed them crops or water, deforest the Amazon, or figure out ways to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future...
Elephant, lion, tiger, and zebra steaks are on the menu thanks to lab made meats
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you can take the cell from an animal and use it to grow meat in bioreactors then that cell can be from any animal – from T-Rex’s to Porcupines and Pandas … this is a food revolution. Love the Exponential Future? Join our...
Open Meals uses your biology to 3D print custom Sushi for each individual diner using
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We talk about personalised medicine, but personalised food is also now taking on a whole new meaning … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Usually,...
This startup is literally trying to make juicy steaks out of thin air
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You might think food from air is impossible, but thanks to space innovation it isn’t … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. While some companies...
In the future your coffee could be grown in a lab
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today we can take the cells from plants and animals and grow coffee, dairy, fish, and meat in a lab, and it’s changing how we produce food. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Scientists used bioreactors to grow human burgers, technically its not cannabalism
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If we can take cells from an animal and grow meat from those cells then we can do it with any animal – including humans … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
Bacteria manage to recycle plastic into vanilla flavouring in weird world first
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you think plastics can only be recycled to make new plastics you’d be wrong. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I see many weird things – such as molecular assemblers and...
Singapore becomes the first country in the world to approve lab made meat for sale
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF For tens of thousands of years humankind have gotten their meat from animals, now that no longer needs to be the case. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Every new technology faces many...
3D printed artificial fruit looks better and tastes better than the real thing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our food and the way we produce it is changing – and it’s going to cause a massive societal shift in how we view our favourite past time. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote,...
Higher Steaks shows off the world’s first lab made bacon and pork bellies
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of food doesn’t involve raising animals for slaughter or growing crops in fields … and it’s arriving. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Amazon and Ocado are growing crops in vertical farms in warehouses, not open fields, companies are 3D printing beef...
KFC embraces future of food, inks deal to sell 3D printed chicken nuggets
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The meat you eat has to be raised, slaughtered, and then transported, but now you can buy real meat that never travelled a mile and never lived … Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Amazon and Ocado are growing...
Food made from thin air could disrupt the global Soya market within a decade
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating Soya and other protein products has a huge environmental impact, food literally made from air eliminates that. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. There’s a food revolution going on – whether it’s plant based meat, which let’s face...
Nanotech helps chocolatiers create rainbow chocolates and give artificial colourings the boot
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Foods contain all kinds of harmful or questionable artificial colourings, by using this new manufacturing method those can all be eliminated. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. To date there have been all kinds of developments when it comes...
Online grocer Ocado invests £17m to bring robot run vertical farms to the world
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way we grow crops today is inefficient, and vertical farms offer companies a new way to grow organic crops en masse without ruining the planet. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I’ve been talking about new ways to...
Lab grown meat could make eating T-Rex and Zebra burgers completely normal
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you can grow any meat, from any animal, in a lab without ever having to rear, raise, or harm an animal then why wouldn’t eating exotic meats become culturally acceptable? Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. If...
US startup uses an old NASA recipe to create “meat” from thin air
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we investigate new ways to feed the planet some of the breakthroughs in food production are “unconventional.” Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you should have heard of...
