erewhon

For current Erewhon prices, 8 eggs a day is $11.30 in free eggs a day, so $339 in eggs a month?

Yeah, using erewhon to gauge price of anything isn't going to yield anything good.

Interesting - I wonder if the author was gesturing at Erewhon which was published a few years earlier.

My brother's theory is that Erewhon Grove customers are people who legitimately wanted a smoothie and Erewhon Beverly Hills customers just want photos with the smoothie since it was very popular on Instagram at the time.

But somehow Erewhon resisted these pressures when designing the Hailey Bieber smoothie.

Going to Erewhon and experiencing the $20 Hailey Bieber smoothie was on my brother's bucket list and riding in a Waymo was on mine.

Half the products at Whole Foods or maybe Erewhon are from small indie companies catering to small markets of people that want those things.

I purposely seek out whole milk, cream on top, and eat a bowl of Erewhon organic raisin bran[1] pretty much nightly.

He said it was overpriced but bought it again from a different Erewhon so I assumed he liked it (Canadian understatement).

The pre-Waymo one was from Erewhon Grove and was freshly blended.

And your Erewhon Japanese strawberry is 19 dollars.

I didn't taste the Erewhon smoothie and can't rate it.

Another early book on the implications of AI is Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" (1872) satire which describes a society in which a complex machine uprising occurred and thereafter all complex mechanical/computational devices were banned in their society.

Pilfered from Wikipedia entry: Butler developed " Darwin Among the Machines " and subsequent articles into The Book of the Machines, three chapters of Erewhon, published anonymously in 1872.

Even if we read that as generously as possible - "wow, look at how many millennials buy $20 Erewhon smoothies" - it's a wildly stupid play to couple that to how many millennials are in debt and can't afford homes.

Samuel Butler's 1872 "Erewhon" fiction book which features a society which banned all complex machines because of a prior machine intelligence uprising is the direct, and directly referenced, inspiration for the "Butlerian Jihad" in the Dune book series.

You want to believe you can spend your money to opt out of environmental toxins by shopping at Erewhon.

Erewhon Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive premade a bunch of them and left them lying around for a while before selling.

In 1872's Erewhon, Butler already described the technological system as a force that human society could contain as soon as it tolerated it.