Had lunch Wed in a Herndon strip mall, next door to a craft brewery which throughout our lunch had a long line of people buying their new release. That's new, at least new to me. Back in the day we had a bunch of companies each brewing their own brand. Then the whole industry consolidated into a couple/three big conglomerates, killing most of the brand names. Then we saw the gradual growth of micro-breweries, and then a rapid expansion. See this page for statistics from the brewers association. It's going so fast wikipedia can't keep up.
Meanwhile the paper (NYTimes?) recently had an article on women farmers making cheese. Also a new thing. And finally today the Post has a piece on new young farmers, who are described as being part of what I'd call the "food movement" (i.e., small, organic, community supported ag).
Seems to me in the recent debate over AI and the likelihood of robots replacing humans in all jobs we forget the ability of humans to invent new desires and to invest their time in uneconomic ways. Can we create robots which are irrational?
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