Peter Diamandis and Dan Sullivan talk about disruption in agriculture and the transportation
- Agriculture is a 2 trillion dollar industry.
- Sensor tech will be critical in agricultural changes – we’re heading towards a trillion sensor economy.
- With Drones and spacecraft we’ll have a “godlike” knowledge of what is growing and where. Down to the moisture levels.
- Genetics – GMO’s have enabled millions of lives. The fear is misplaced.
- Despite scare tactics, not one documented death from a GMO, however millions of lives were saved by them.
- “We are going from evolution by natural selection, to evolution by intelligent direction” (genetic engineering)
- In the 60’s mass global starvation was predicted. But it isn’t happening. In fact, most starvation on earth is due to poor market control and corrupt governments.
- Farm equipment, especially autonomous, is more efficient and larger scale. Combined with sensors, they are color and firmness sensitive.
- Autonomous equipment can run 24 hours.
- Transportation – 33 thousand US lives lost to car accidents annually. Largest cause of death for children. 230 billion dollars of cost in damages. 50 billion gallons of imported gasoline. 15% of US co2 output.
- The next stage is full autonomous cars. Larry Paige’s personal passion.
- Race for autonomous cars between Uber, Tesla, Apple, Google – none conventional car companies.
- In the near future, Diamandis predicts that it will be illegal to drive a car off of a track.
- Riding an autonomous car is like the first time you rode an elevator. After a few trips you get used to it.
- FedEx, UPS and farming will be early adapters of autonomy.
- Benefits of autonomy: lives saved, no need for insurance, massive land restructure with no need for parking and inefficient Highways.
- You can put 8x as many autonomous cars on the road because of smarter driving, communication and spacing.
- Cars can be much lighter.
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