The Future of Farming?

It's no secrete that we have been draining the life out of our planet since the beginning of industrialization, and while there have been many great things that came from industrialization, we have been so focused on looking ahead that we have forgotten to respect where we stand. We polluted our air, polluted our water, destroyed ecosystems, and distanced ourselves from nature in order to build factories where we can mass produce good so that other companies could go on to create things like computers and smartphones that would make our lives easier to manage. Now that we have all the technology in the world, and we can see past the smog to recognize the damage we have done, it's time to see if our sacrifices were worthwhile.

MIT's Caleb Harper's food computers represents how the damage we've done in the name of industrialization can repent. Using the technology we've developed over the years, he and his team have developed a way to code our food while maintaining and even increasing it's natural nutritional value. I feel that the best way to explain what a food computer does is to think about specific fruits such as Mexican peaches. When a person says they like Mexican peaches, they really like the climate that the peaches are grown in which gives it that specific taste that they like. A food computer basically codes climates and raises their food in the specific "climate recipe" that is known to give the result they want.

Based off the research I've done on food computer's, I would consider myself an advocate of them. They are cheap and accessible to all who want one. They have made three different sizes including a personal sized one that they've given instructions on how to build in the most affordable way which is no more the 1,000 for their first model and 2,000 for the newest model. Their goal is to get food computers all across the globe so that everyone can have access to the many different "culture recipes" and grow their fruits and vegetables with as much nutritional value as the plant can give. I believe this could be a major factor in how we will continue to farm in the future since the traditional farmer is in decline. It's ideas and techniques such as the food computer that give me hope that we will make it through the steady rise of problems facing the farming culture and health issues.

MIT Wants to Turn Everyone Into a Farmer With Its Food Computers