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0 pointsccallebs10y ago0 comments

In its current incarnation, it's not going to be replacing the supermarket anytime soon. I'm not trying to suggest that it will. But I do think it has the potential to disrupt.

I own a small farm myself. If the price point were low enough, I could easily set up acres of this technology and map out my crops using my computer. It could keep track of when crops needed to be harvested, when I needed to weed, how much I need to plant of one thing for a season. And then eventually could do those things for me.

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VLM10y ago

"I could easily set up acres of this technology"

via the magic of the internet, those acres need not be contiguous. Which is in itself rather fascinating.

Rather than signing up for the local CSA I'd sign up for someone to monitor and run my robo farm.

MustardTiger10y ago

>If the price point were low enough, I could easily set up acres of this technology and map out my crops using my computer. It could keep track of when crops needed to be harvested, when I needed to weed, how much I need to plant of one thing for a season.

All of that is just garden planning software, which has existed for 20+ years.

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