What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change the food system by connecting growers with technology. Get to know Harper’s “food computers” and catch a glimpse of what the future of farming might look like.
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why not chicken?
Shut up and take my money!
Mac Hill who sent you
Really wish more people may see this
Resilient systems are inefficient in producing a single species, and efficiency reduces resilience. An emergency response kit must be efficient, but resiliency requires planning tolerant to damage. Technology applies in intensive cultivation, bioreactors, incubation, storage, gene-editing and so on, but the base system still is an ecosystem. You still need a botanist to provide for the environment the machines enhance.
Would you please link the locations of these food computers? (I'm trying to find the one in Minneapolis… no luck yet.)
superb
good speaker!!! awesome work!
Brilliant! Just brilliant! I'm coming along for the ride! Thank you so much for your research, testing and making this food growing system available to everybody around the world! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
What's wrong with the average apple in the supermarkt being 11 month old? I think it's a good thing to have apples on stock in case of a crisis.
We feed 7 billion people. Just ignore the ones starving.
Caleb Harper, you have no clue what you are doing, I have seen what you can grow and you are right your plants are telling you something. Give me what I need and you suck! lol
can someome explain to me concisely what this does exactly? im a little confused
if a seventh grader does not know there is water in the air our education system is failing…
if a seventh grader does not know there is water in the air our education system is failing…
Amazing. Must see it again. I shared it in FaceBook and my blog. also subbed.
Well.. bad news for agriculture
This is the perfect analogy to explain human behavior. Just replace the word plant with the word human. People are who they are mostly because their environment shaped them. if we could reproduce a good environment everywhere, we would get rid of tastless fruits (bad human behavior) !
this is remarkable, I love when people work together to make the world a better place for healthy food. thanks a lot. There is steel hope