A Dialogue on Agriculture & Technology
Industry and Big Business for the benefit of humanity
Technology and agriculture are inextricably tangled. In their essence they may seem worlds apart, but in their human application they complement and track one another intimately. In fact, you could even call agriculture one of the original human technologies.
At present, both technology and agriculture are totally out of control. They are dominated and built out of an artificial and algorithmic nature that feeds the monster of profit at all costs and at the expense of the average person as a result of the checks and balances we have put into place being either explicitly or implicitly owned by corporate interests that cannot be satiated.
The reigns of technology and agriculture operate from a protected center in the sole interest of shareholders, rather than as decentralized agents for the betterment of humanity. Why does equity for all have to be mutually exclusive with business and profit? The lever of power here lies in the realm of incentive.
Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI) and Silicon Valley, said recently in an interview, “There’s this question of whether what you’re fighting for is something that’s really new and a benefit for humanity, or if you’re only engaged in a sort…
