Farming is being revolutionized by a technological wave. That’s great news—by the year 2050 Earth’s population will be 10 billion, so we need to almost double the amount of food we now produce.
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http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-06-09/factory-fresh
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v544/n7651_supp/full/544S21a.html
Video by Bryce Plank and Robin West
Co-written by Kiriana Cowansage
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Excellent video, and I have hopes we can pursue these projects and innovations in the future however; Capitalism will inevitably hold these technologies back until it's abolished along with multinational corporations who promote the expansion of evils such as factory farming and genetic modification for their OWN interests and the exploitation of all peoples across the developing world. Remember Bayer, Monsanto, DuPont, etc are multi-billion dollar corporations (DuPont Revenue 25.27 billion USD (2015)) whom have previously and continue to exploit humans during the Green Revolution and in modern day. Abolition is necessary for factory farming, no modifications to evil. Meat production alternatives such as those made in labs are great, however we must analyze the underlying issue of industrial/ individual waste and the promotion of a Western diet, high in animal proteins/fats across the developing world.
We want to save lives but complain about overpopulation
7*2=10 Seems legit
no way in hell am I eating a bug
What about one on Mega projects in Latin America, the Middle East, the new Silk Road and future space projects
You did forget one point, and one that could be applied right now and with a minimum budget from the states: EDUCATION: Educate people not to waste food (in US 40% of food is wasted), educate people not to eat meet every day, educate people to consume local food, educate people to grow some of their own foodµ, etc..
Ah man this was necessarily uplifting :)…
Although, my biggest concern over GMOs is the economic impact. Only one maybe two companies control all GMO seeds. I don't know about you,but I don't want the future of the human race dependent on the ethics of a company that has a monopoly.
Whilst undoubtedly this is the innovation needed to continue our expansion as a species I do think no one is thinking of the social adaptation we will need to function as a society. If you take away and replace those jobs the poorest and most uneducated of the population work on with robotics then what do you replace it with? These new methods are naturally the right way to go but at some point we might have to accelerate our social thinking as fast as our industrial innovation. Inevitable mass unemployment will likely be an associated consequence if we're not careful.
The ideas & technology doesn't need to be used by capitalist companies, coops are a very good economic form
Extremely well researched and presented video man. You've entered my list of high quality information sources. thanks for the good work 🙂
Well researched, clearly presented, and quite informative. Thanks Bryce. Looking forward to your next ep. If you haven't tackled it already- I think the private sector launch market might be interesting. Launch costs are falling quite quickly(especially among the small launchers like Vector, Rocketlab, and ArcaSpace) and those reductions will change the way we use orbital and outer space in so many ways
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surprised this video has such a low number of views
do on CPEC china pakistan economic corridor
Part 2
Eh vertical farms are much better for the environment but other than that great video.
Can you make a video about the mega projects on the London Underground?
What would happen if every country built a wall and stopped trading with the world (no imports or exports)? Please elaborate the consequences in your video.
I guess farmers would be treated like Saudis.
Would really like to see video dedicated video to GMO's they have an extremely bad stigma attached to them which I don't think is justified
Autonomous pickers
Robotic weed/pest killers
Weed-killing laser
Micro-sensors (Internet of Things)
Robotic soil sampler
Completely autonomous farm
Drone assisted crop monitoring
Uber-like aerial crop imaging
CubeSat whole farm imaging
Big data analytics
Data sharing collectives
Vertical farming
High density vertical farming
Optimal growing wavelengths
Climate replication
Livestock activity monitor
Breath analysis
Automated thermal imaging analysis
3-D camera measuring
Audio health monitoring
Automated behavior analysis
In-land saltwater fish farms
Zero waste fish farming
Fish food made from bacteria
Insect flour and protein powder
Cultured meat
CRISPR
Drought tolerant corn
Improving unimproved crops
C4 Rice Project
Livestock disease immunity