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The Future of Food Lightning Talk
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  • Some issues with the current state of agriculture
    • Food transportation - negative environmental impact
    • Growing produce depends on good weather and uses lots of water
    • Pesticides
    • Lack of people wanting to farm
  • Discuss MIT Media Lab's Digital Farm, food computers, servers and data centers
    • Everything can be controlled: climate, water, nutrients, etc.
    • Data can be analyzed to see how to adjust the environment to improve the harvest
    • You can experiment with flavors based on the environment
  • Discuss benefits of digital computers
    • No need for pesticides and harmful chemicals
    • Water consumption can be greatly reduced
    • Predicatable harvest, not weather dependant
    • Fresher, cheaper, more nutritious
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