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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
I think there will be plenty of booze in the future, because drinking is a sensory experience, as well as a way to get buzzed or loaded. If you could pop a food pill in the future, how many would be willing to give up the pleasure of food?
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I don't know, Maggie. I see what you're saying (thinking wine and beer tastings and food matchings, etc.), but in the case of your food/food pill scenario, one precludes the other. In the alcohol/pill scenario, a person can still enjoy a (non-alcoholic) drink and all its taste and social sensations while popping a pill for the sensory high desired.
Saying that, I think people will still enjoy alcohol, from a legacy, industrial inertia, marketing, fashion, experiential perspective. So perhaps I contradict myself, Maggie.
Cheers,
Marc (who loves his dessert wines)