Sugar Daddy Science & the Food Computer

[TheVat]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ce/598231/

[Serpent]

What's wrong with normal hydroponics? What's wrong with employing people, instead of computers, in food-production? My [ordinary, manually-serviced] kale grows faster than we can eat it! I just don't get the obsession with bigger/faster=better.

[zetreque]

What's wrong with normal hydroponics? What's wrong with employing people, instead of computers, in food-production? My [ordinary, manually-serviced] kale grows faster than we can eat it! I just don't get the obsession with bigger/faster=better.

because they are human and humans are on a path of self obsoletion and self destruction ;)

[TheVat]

What's wrong with normal hydroponics? What's wrong with employing people, instead of computers, in food-production? My [ordinary, manually-serviced] kale grows faster than we can eat it! I just don't get the obsession with bigger/faster=better.

And the point is that this food computer didn't even work and required putting in purchased plants to make it look like it did. It was fake science, something flashy to keep their billionaire donor happy.

[Serpent]

Thing is, computer-controlled growing systems have been around for years. They come in all sizes from apartment to huge commercial operations, soil, substrate or hydroponic, tiered and vertical, for vegetables, herbs, microgreens, flowers and pot.
https://cloudponics.com/
https://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Controlled-Smart-Hydroponic-Modular-System/
http://www.climatecontrol.com/blog/automate-marijuana-greenhouse-cannabis-facility/
https://autogrow.com/our-products-solutions/hydroponics-substrates
this one's from 2012
https://newatlas.com/urban-cultivator-computer-controlled-hydroponics/21272/
The only thing they haven't been doing for years, and can't do, is quadruple a plant's growth-rate.
They'll just have to wait for replicators.