On 11/05/17 10:00, Carsten Agger wrote:
That said, the ideas behind the food computer are interesting. It might be the most rational way to source some plants (rather than exploit vulnerable ecosystems and have them shipped across the globe), and in terms of sustainability it might be more rational than industrial farming.
But I think it would be more of a supplement and that the majority of the food we eat should be produced by natural methods, following the permaculture principle of rebuilding at least as many ressources as are consumed.
Thanks for raising the topic of permaculture. I feel these things all have a role to play too. Some points about the role of the food computer:
- there will always be some countries who can't produce enough food through purely natural processes due to size/population ratio (think of Singapore) and people in those places will be attracted to solutions like this
- it is great for educational and research purposes, especially in the family home or in cities
- from a hacker/developer perspective, both permaculture and food computers provide interesting problems to be solved and some software development will help in both domains (reusable code libraries anybody?)