Neha Tripathi

It’s 2050. Your AI assistant wishes you good morning with a mug of coffee. You leave the bed only to move to the kitchen for your breakfast preparations. You enter the kitchen and the lights automatically brighten. The fridge welcomes you with a beep and informs you of its contents — what’s nearing expiry date, what’s stale and what’s fresh. Smart countertops start displaying recipes matching your health goals. The chopper wonders what it will get today for chopping. Ovens and cooktops start adjusting time and temperature. Robotic assistance handles cooking, stirring and cleaning. And you are the BOSS. Just managing everything with commands and a coffee mug in your hands. 

Food is prepared, and now you are at the dining table waiting for the AI robots to serve you, rather, feed you. This moment reminds me of the iconic scene from the 1936 satirical classic masterpiece Modern Times. Charlie Chaplin is sitting at the dining table, shocked to see the Billows Feeding Machine. The machine tries to feed him soup, corn on the cob and cake. This is the imagination in 1936, which we foresee as our daily routine in 2050. But in 1936, the machine malfunctions and starts attacking and messing up the character’s face. The problem was the mechanical parts of the machine going too fast, shoving food onto the face…read more on NOPR