I mean this is the classic predict-the-future folly where you look at current infrastructural problem and think up future solutions that would improve it rather than future solutions that change the infrastructure and net you much better gains.
So in other words will it really make sense to have huge quantities of humanoid robots working on rice terraces in 2050, or will we just be producing most of our starch in bioreactors?
This is a very flattening argument that ignores the cultural and biological importance of a healthy, complex food system for nutrition. Replacing agroecological, Place-conscious agriculture with sterile technology not only impoverishes the diversity and importance of food as a social locus, but it demonstrably leads to worse nutrition outcomes.
The question isn’t “how do we get rid of agriculture or of people who work the land” but “how do we make their work dignified, comfortable and non-alienating”.
I mean this is the classic predict-the-future folly where you look at current infrastructural problem and think up future solutions that would improve it rather than future solutions that change the infrastructure and net you much better gains.
So in other words will it really make sense to have huge quantities of humanoid robots working on rice terraces in 2050, or will we just be producing most of our starch in bioreactors?
This is a very flattening argument that ignores the cultural and biological importance of a healthy, complex food system for nutrition. Replacing agroecological, Place-conscious agriculture with sterile technology not only impoverishes the diversity and importance of food as a social locus, but it demonstrably leads to worse nutrition outcomes.
The question isn’t “how do we get rid of agriculture or of people who work the land” but “how do we make their work dignified, comfortable and non-alienating”.
Relax comrade, it was just an example.