Big fridge is watching you [smart technologies monitoring food from production to consuption]

Alongside flying cars and jet packs, the high-tech kitchen of tomorrow has been a staple of futuristic articles and exhibitions for more than a century. Designs have revolved around the themes of automation and some degree of machine intelligence but have generally failed to make any impact on our domestic lives. Now the rising tide of network and wireless technologies is finally turning the smart kitchen into reality. This figure traces all of the interconnected data flows relating to food production and consumption with the aim to show that smart technologies will mean healthier eating.