Earlier this year, a company called Open Meals caused a bit of a ruckus on the internet when it announced a new sushi technology that custom-crafts recipes according to each customer?s biology. To dine at Tokyo’s Sushi Singularity, you don?t just have to make a reservation ? you also must send in a fecal sample. Seriously.

Open Meals is quite eager for robots to transcend human knowledge of sushi, explaining: “A world which sees sushi going digital and linked with the net will come about. Two revolutions are envisioned: 1) sushi will connect people around the world, and it will be produced, edited, and shared online in the form of ?new sushi.? 2) sushi combined with biometrics will enable hyper-personalization based on biometric and genomic data. Sushi will break away from conventional concepts of food and be continually revised and updated at exponential speed! Humans know nothing about sushi!”
Is this really the future of food" Do we want it to be" Your answer to that question might depend just how into the concept of a robot takeover you are ? or how much you like products like Soylent, which are undeniably convenient, but not really food.

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