In the last 60 years the West World has revolutionized the ways of breeding, planting, harvesting and storing grains. The ability to cover vast amounts of land with the same type of crop without losing it all to a pest, or a disease, is impressive. Additionally, we (as an species) have been able to automate […]
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Alimento yo no miento / Fry don’t lie
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Removing Opacity to improve Connection
In 2020, while everyone was dealing with the pandemic, I was dealing with other set of challenges. One person close to me was diagnosed with a disease that required a change in their eating habits. A life or death situation like the one of millions of people in the world that suffer from life-threatening food […]
Everything humans do can be reduced to a stream of events that produce a continuous outcome. Cause and effect. I believe that many of the current farm management systems and most of the logistic software solutions are based on state management instead of event management. This is why I think events are more important than […]
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Food Federalization
or Why we need more local proudness. Food is central in building civilizations. Grains and staple crops have been crucial in the development and growth of ancient empires and entire modern nations. The United States wouldn’t be number one without the #2 Yellow Corn and soybeans. But a time for a new civilization seems to […]
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Farming, Food and Data
How are farmers keeping track of their data? Is that data secure and independent? Are they blocked and hostage of a certain provider? I believe that the next revolution in farming is going to be based on a distributed network of local, sustainable and responsible food hubs. But to get to this reality there are […]
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Can we open source farming?
The more I learn and work in the field and in the technology that will work on the field, the more I found that farming needs open source tools. From protocols and equipment, to digital tools. As one of the oldest professions of the Antropocene, agriculture has evolved from the transmission of knowledge from generation […]
Please keep your WholeFoods Heirloom tomatoes for the end of the article. The World is facing a great challenge. We need to reduce our carbon footprint, but at the same time keep producing the same or more amount of food, and distributing it around the world. Globalization and the Internet make us know each other […]
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The Barn-sized Vending Machine
If we don’t have to go to the supermarket, how are we going to get our food? It’s going to look very different than what we have today. I imagine in the future we will pick (or get delivered) a subscription box that will contain all our basic needs in terms of food. It will […]
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The supermarket experience is obsolete
In 20 years we will think back of supermarkets and will ask ourselves, why it took us that long to replace it? Was the internet too slow? The supermarket experience is completely inadequate for the 21st century. Let me walk you to the process – in case you have not visited a supermarket in the […]
Asumamos que voy a tener nietos. O que al menos van a existir otros humanos en sus treintas en el año 2060. Eso espero. Ahora, digamos que van a necesitar de sustento para mantenerse vivos, pues asumimos que siguen siendo humanos (si, las mascotas de Minecraft para ti son como hijos, pero quiero concentrarme en […]