In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Ultimate Computer,” Captain Kirk is faced with losing his job. Yet it is not because he has cause an international diplomacy disaster or made some other critical error while in command. Instead, the M-5 multitronic system, a computer program that can run a starship without any …
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The Technological Promise
28 July 2019 – In 1833, the German-born inventor John Adolphus Etzler looked upon a world being rapidly transformed by the steam engine and mass production related to the industrial revolution. He saw a world that was extremely close to being transformed into a Utopia, and believed that with the available technology of the time, …
The Future of Agriculture II: Participation
The Green Revolution was a set of agricultural techniques that were spread around the world in the 1960s that included the use of artificial pesticides, fertilizers, machinery, and high-yield varieties. The result of these technologies was that agricultural yields on the same amount of land increased dramatically, and the increased mechanization slashed the number of …
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The Future of Agriculture I: Agroforestry
Agriculture is an important topic that is too often ignored in discussions of sustainability. However, it does take up a significant fraction of the earth’s surface, uses a huge sum of resources each year, and produces the stuff that keeps us alive, so our system of food production should receive more consideration by policymakers. This …
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