Enjoy Yourself! Its Later Than You Think

I don't consider myself someone who gets spooked easily so when I have sweaty palms and a chill running down my spine before 9:00 AM, I pause to reflect on just what's causing the sinking feeling in my stomach. In this case it is the random adjacency of two news items plucked from thousands of options by one of our very talented Project Managers at the New England Consulting Group. The first article: Watson, Elaine. "What's the path to commercialization for clean meat?" Food Navigator June 8, 2017 lays out a very plausible glide path for "clean" meat (lab grown, cultured in petri dishes) to work its way into our food supply by starting out blended with other "meat-ish" (that's mine folks I just coined it) products and then, inch by inch, creeping into other blends until boom, your eating a the new McCultured with fries and a Coke and your lovin' it.

I would have been fine except the next article: Mims, Christopher. "How Facebook's Telepathic Texting is Supposed to Work" WSJ.com June 12, 2017 goes on to report that Facebook is working on a way to read our thoughts and enable us to text each other hands free by simply thinking about it. While Mims is skeptical and cites the huge technical challenges, the likely evolution of the technology is that it would first appear in augmented or virtual reality settings and then move into everyday life.

I love the culture at NECG, we are an intellectually curious group. We spend time discussing and debating issues that could or could not impact our clients down the road. Our morning news meeting (always at 8:00AM sharp come Hell or high-water) is a great way to start the day. Having said that, cultured meat and invasive mind reading technology make me feel sympathy, for the first time, for the old guy screaming, "get off my lawn", while he pines away for a simpler time.

I do not look forward to the day when you tell me you would have offered me the cultured meat burger but you already knew I'd refuse it. Any thoughts?