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As a recent twitter rant against the Media Lab food computers went[1] - massive indoor farming operations basically already work this way and have in fact irone
by paulgerhardt 7y ago
As a recent twitter rant against the Media Lab food computers went[1] - massive indoor farming operations basically already work this way and have in fact ironed out most of the bugs. There just happens to not be so much cross-pollination between traditional A&M schools and the Media Lab.
It should be noted that land grant schools were solely set up all over the country a hundred and fifty years ago to tackle exactly this domain of problems and not without some irony that MIT is one.
[1] https://twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/1171895657872941056?s=21 https://twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/117189565787294105...
- DonHopkins 7y ago>There just happens to not be so much cross-pollination between traditional A&M schools and the Media Lab. MIT's Robotic Bees will solve that problem. https://futurism.com/mit-researchers-give-the-robot-bee-a-major-upgrade https://futurism.com/mit-researchers-give-the-robot-bee-a-ma...
- angry_octet 7y agoIf you mark such posts with <humor> it will be easier for users to down vote them.
- chillingeffect 7y agoI thought the same thing when I saw them start that at the ML a few years back... but in following this fracas, I've learned massive indoor growops are doing something related but different: They're optimizing growth cycles for efficient crops, as opposed to diversity. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just food computers are more about synthesizing a climate to grow pathologically diverse food. It's not a bad idea. Caleb Harper just did bad things.