Why Mushrooms are Starting to Replace Everything

[Uncle Joe]

Jun 24, 2025
Why Mushrooms are Starting to Replace Everything. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code UNDECIDED at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/undecided Imagine a world where the homes we live in, the clothes we wear, and even the sensors in our electronics weren’t manufactured, but grown. Mycelium, the root structure of fungi, is shaking up everything from sustainable construction to meatless bacon. It’s turning agricultural waste into walls, hemp into compostable packaging, and fungal threads into leather that even luxury brands are eyeing. This mushroom material is set to insulate the façade of a 300-unit housing project in California. And now, innovators are swapping out the sensors of robots for the electrical pulses of living mycelium. So, how long until mycelium is just as ubiquitous as wood, metal, and plastic?

[Cheezoholic]

1. Mycelium has been opening my mind for 45 years. Got a batch incubating right now ;) n/t

[markodochartaigh]

2. Anytime mushrooms are mentioned

I think that we should also mention Paul Stamets who helped to save his Mother's life with mushrooms.

[AZ8theist]

3. And here I thought you were talking about Trumps dick.

[nuxvomica]

4. Fascinating stuff

I was first intrigued by the various uses of fungi when I read a beautifully written sci-fi novel called Rats Live on No Evil Star by James Audlin. The story is narrated by a fungal tree on a planet where only fungus grows. It seemed to me that a fungal monoculture is probably in our future as we make the planet less hospitable to more complex species so it's good to see fungi has so many uses.