MOODBOARD: "OMNI MAGAZINE'S 'FUTURE ALMANAC' " ( 1982). I'LL BE TAKING SCREENSHOTS FROM RANDOM PAGES OF THE ALMANAC, AND POSTING THEM AS MOODBOARDS. ONE HAS TO ADMIRE THE OVER EXAGGERATION OF PREDICTIONS, PARTICULARLY WHEN LOOKING 40 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE FROM THE EARLY 1980S, AT WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN OUR TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS. SOME PREDICTIONS ARE ON THE MONEY, A LOT WERE NOT. (update 1)

 

"Food costs will continue to increase over the next twenty years, although not as fast as wages, because genetic engineering, aquaculture, computers, and robot farm workers will make farms more productive. In addition, health-conscious Americans will eat less in the future, especially such meats as beef and pork. This trend means that the percentage of income the typical family spends on food will decline from 20.7 to 19.6 by 2000."

This is kinda accurate, as the increases in Food Costs may have more to do with Climate Change, inflation and shrinking farmlands.  Genetic engineering (GMO) did not take off too well for the food industries due to cross contamination of non GMO farmland, nor did tech in processing foods en masse (high energy costs/carbon emissions).  Americans are eating less meat, due to rising costs of food and that meat prices being so high, hence concerns about the environment, and less about health issues.  Thus, meat and pork demand has fallen, and the greatest meat eating countries in the world, South America have actually reduced their consumption of meat.

The "Effects of Inflation" price of coffee is pretty close to the mark at $4.50 (2010) up from .90 cents in 1980.