Agriculture is important, and software is driving most of the innovation. Whether its better software to design the machines that harvest crops, more efficient

Agriculture is important, and software is driving most of the innovation. Whether its better software to design the machines that harvest crops, more efficient futures markets for selling grain in advance of harvest, better watering scheduling, self-driving harvesters, a basis of information for farmers to learn about advances in farm tech, computers that enable genetics research for better genetically modified crops. Put another way, it isn't like the head of cabbage I ate six months ago has me writing better code then or today. But the script I wrote to make my development loop faster still does. The system is chaotic and interdependent, but the flows of causation are still broadly understandable. It even makes sense on a philosophical level. Humans were once the only agents in the economy with decision making power. Now a human writes some code and the code operates long after the human that wrote it has gone. Output is no longer tied to attention. Furthermore, we happen to live in an existence where information transfer is extremely, extremely, cheap from a resource standpoint. So the software doesn't just scale attention on the one computer it was written on, it scales for everyone! An upgrade to Microsoft Excel helps millions of people all at once! We can even use software to make better computers and software! It's naturally self-building, and the main reason why I think it will continue to lead biotech until biotech merges with software.