I heard a woman say yesterday that people want to keep their stuff, really, they just don't want to see it... don't want to be reminded that they have so much of it... and that even though they want the latest gadgets with all of the bells and whistles, they eventually settle down into a similar routine that they had with the NEW product.. rarely changing.
This makes me think that any truly revolutionary simplification of kitchen life would involve a change in standard concepts of ownership and a renewed sense of community trust. Maybe we see indoor/outdoor community kitchens that house all those clunky appliances that people get "just in case" they get an urge to can fresh strawberries or hand make bread, but then each house has its own simple kitchen that only has what each household actually uses. Of course, new technology could supplement good old fashioned trust... electronic lending logs and key codes might hold all that stuff in place and make everyone accountable, but it gets very big brother then, and I'd like to think that people can follow through on these things on thier own.
I can't see it far off... now, with all the community gardens popping up in the city, and tool lending libraries that I've seen.
It seems like we just want a back-up. We want to be able to do something... we want our freedom- translated into kitchen life, it gets expensive and wasteful.
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