![]() But the most interesting thing? Beautiful, white roots, deep, green colors and a monthly harvest. And there's a lot of interesting technology in there. Inside of these 60 square feet, we produced enough food to feed about 300 people once a monthnot a lot of food. ![]() With my team, we built a farm inside of the media lab, a place historically known not for anything about biology but everything about digital life. They said, "Knock yourself out, kid! Here's an old electronics room that nobody wants. And I created one of the most intimate relationships I've ever had in my life, because I was learning the language of plants. And I built silly things and I made plants dance and I attached them to my computer and I killed them alla lot. A number of years ago now, I went to Bed Bath and Beyond and Home Depot and I started hacking. So how do we build this platform that inspires the youth? No young people, and everyone's headed in. In India: farmers' families not being able to have basic access to utilities, more farmer suicides this year and the previous 10 before that. The life of a small-shareholder farmer is miserable. What good answer comes from two percent of any population? As we go around the world, 50 percent of the African population is under 18. Two percent of the American population is involved in farming. The kids have headed to Sendai and Tokyo, the land is contaminated, they already import 70 percent of their own food. That's what I landed to the day that I went to Minamisanriku, one stop south of Fukushima, after the disaster. Going through some of these quotes, you know, they inspire me to do what I do. What if you could take this apple, digitize it somehow, send it through particles in the air and reconstitute it on the other side? What if? we built a digital farm? A digital world farm. It's a miracle that we feed seven billion people with just a few of us involved in the production of food. ![]() All these tracesthese are cars, planes, trains and automobiles. The last generation's problem was, we need more food and we need it cheap. What if each country had its own productive climate? What would that change about how we live? What would that change about quality of life and nutrition? China picks up land in Brazil to grow better food, and we're a slave to climate. They shift and they change, and Californian farmers now become Mexican farmers. The most productive areas in green, the least productive in red. How do you express yourself in food? If we had a platform, we might feel empowered to question: What if? For me, I questioned: What if climate was democratic? So, this is a map of climate in the world. But I met people, and I could express myself. I know platformsI know computers, they put me on the Internet when I was young. How did we get so information poor and how can we do better? How is it that none of you knew this? Why didn't I know this? Ninety percent of the quality of that appleall of the antioxidantsare gone by the time we get it. We pick them, we put them in cold storage, we gas the cold storagethere's actually documented proof of workers trying to go into these environments to retrieve an apple, and dying, because the atmosphere that they slow down the process of the apple with is also toxic to humans. And I don't expect it to be much different in Europe or anywhere else in the world. How old do you think it was from when it was picked? Two weeks? Two months? Eleven monthsthe average age of an apple in a grocery store in the United States. How is this apple food crisis? You've all eaten an apple in the last week, I'm sure. So how do we bring that to something that we understand? And I find the current climate of this discussion incredibly disempowering. Maybe GMO is the problem? Too much agricultural runoff creating bad oceans, toxic oceans, attenuation of nutrition. ![]() Some places in the world it's too little food, maybe too much. CALEB HARPER THIS COMPUTER WILL GROW YOUR FOOD IN THE FUTUREĬaleb harper this computer will grow your food in the futureįood crisis. ![]()
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