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Farms have been replacing people with technology for at least 200 years.
by ams6110 9y ago
Farms have been replacing people with technology for at least 200 years.
- minikites 9y ago200? Try 6000: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/plaintexthistories.asp?historyid=ab57 http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/plaintexthistories.asp?h... >From about 4000 BC oxen are harnessed and put to work. They drag sledges and, somewhat later, ploughs and wheeled wagons (an almost simultaneous innovation in the Middle East and in Europe). The plough immeasurably increases the crop of wheat or rice. The wagon enables it to be brought home from more distant fields.
- ptaipale 9y agoNot sure why you'd be downvoted, but was about to post the same: the whole history of agriculture is about improving the technology. One could add that development has been particularly rapid over the past 50 years or so.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoFarming itself was a huge leap forward in reducing man-hours per unit of food.
- dragonwriter 9y agoFarming itself is largely replacing human gathering labor with better technology, so 200 years is off by about 10,000 years.