Journal Entry #3 - Don't be Soylent your pants now
In this week's lecture, our guest speaker came to class and spoke about her research on a particular and peculiar product.
So they say that if you consume this, you should be able to get all your nutrients from it. I'm of course talking about Soylent (it's in the title!).
Soylent itself is an open source food product which basically provides the basic necessities a body supposedly needs to function "healthily". It is full food replacement, containing all the essential macro and micro nutrients we require to do our daily tasks and activities as human beings.
One question popped into my head and that is: "Who would forgo glorious food for some powder?"
But I did some research and following what our guest speaker mentioned, there is a market for these sort of products, and I can totally relate to why that is the case.
Firstly, have you ever thought about how hard it is to maintain a certain diet simply because you did not have the time to prepare the meal or purchase the ingredients necessary? Well then Soylent literally removes that factor for you, making your diet as easy as pie (no pun intended).
Next, there is a concept brought up by our speaker which relates to how our human body is made up of numbers (metabolic rate, heartrate, fat percentage, etc.), and for us to control these numbers becomes easy when we figure out the calculations necessary. Soylent itself provides the numbers already calculated down to a tee for those willing to purchase it to resolve the issue of knowing how much to eat so that they can simply carry on with their day which brings us to our third and final point.
TIME.
Yes, that is the biggest factor, which basically summarizes our previous points as well. With Soylent one is able to reduce the time spent on cooking, the time spent on calculating, and basically know for a fact that aside from the amount they need to decide on consuming for their daily meals, that's all there is to it when it comes to their meals and that is attractive to those wanting to save their precious resource of time to be spent on other, more productive endeavours.
Personally, I feel there is an artistic notion to be derived from this whole concept of consuming a calculated food source that is simple to have. Just the poetic idea of being able to calculate everything in one's body in the form of numbers, creates an image of our body encapsulated in code and numeric.
In a nutshell, I personally don't think I'll be forgoing gluttonous life for powder any time soon.
Catch ya guys later!
So they say that if you consume this, you should be able to get all your nutrients from it. I'm of course talking about Soylent (it's in the title!).
Soylent itself is an open source food product which basically provides the basic necessities a body supposedly needs to function "healthily". It is full food replacement, containing all the essential macro and micro nutrients we require to do our daily tasks and activities as human beings.
One question popped into my head and that is: "Who would forgo glorious food for some powder?"
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| I MEAN SERIOUSLY!?!? |
Firstly, have you ever thought about how hard it is to maintain a certain diet simply because you did not have the time to prepare the meal or purchase the ingredients necessary? Well then Soylent literally removes that factor for you, making your diet as easy as pie (no pun intended).
Next, there is a concept brought up by our speaker which relates to how our human body is made up of numbers (metabolic rate, heartrate, fat percentage, etc.), and for us to control these numbers becomes easy when we figure out the calculations necessary. Soylent itself provides the numbers already calculated down to a tee for those willing to purchase it to resolve the issue of knowing how much to eat so that they can simply carry on with their day which brings us to our third and final point.
TIME.
Yes, that is the biggest factor, which basically summarizes our previous points as well. With Soylent one is able to reduce the time spent on cooking, the time spent on calculating, and basically know for a fact that aside from the amount they need to decide on consuming for their daily meals, that's all there is to it when it comes to their meals and that is attractive to those wanting to save their precious resource of time to be spent on other, more productive endeavours.
Personally, I feel there is an artistic notion to be derived from this whole concept of consuming a calculated food source that is simple to have. Just the poetic idea of being able to calculate everything in one's body in the form of numbers, creates an image of our body encapsulated in code and numeric.
In a nutshell, I personally don't think I'll be forgoing gluttonous life for powder any time soon.
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| HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE |
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