Too Convenient? A Mobile Supermarket That Comes To You
A concept called Moby Mart is being tested in China. Like 7-11 meets driverless tractor-trailer, the store could be summoned by an app and staffed by a holographic clerk. Are we entering WALL-E world?
Browse the science fiction aisles and you can find all sorts of dystopian future visions — environmental catastrophes, robot overlords, zombies swarms, triffids. Oddly enough, one of the spookiest scenarios ever conjured comes from a kids' movie.
The 2008 Pixar animated film imagines a future where end-stage consumerism , leaving the planet utterly trashed and turning humans into helpless, sedentary slugs. By creating a future where everything is prepared, packaged and delivered by machines, we is closing in fast.
