Nutrition Technology is the Future of Food

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Nourishment comes from a food replicator in Star Trek’s 24th century. It’s the ultimate example of nutrification: technology delivers healthy, sustainable eats without requiring pesky behavior change. (No cooking, animal suffering or environmental damage, either.) Even then arguments rage over the roles of machines and engineering in food production: surely home-cooked, "natural," farm-fresh meals are better! But despite rampant junk-science and technophobia, the future of food is clear. Precision nutrition will inform individual dietary choices, as will IoT and other innovations that connect the quantified self with quantified food. But the biggest health benefits to humanity will come from technologies such as nutrification that don’t rely on behavior change.