[losteric]

You're right... it's just like how early commercial computers were productivity gains for large corporations.

New tech is expensive and not very good - only big businesses see positive ROI. As some technology matures, it becomes a commodity for everyone.

Small farms could go do this right now. It just wouldn't make financial sense.

[jefflombardjr]

Yeah I mean if you think improving ethanol and malt production is cool.

As far as actual food I'm more impressed by small scale open source farm bot projects and some of the innovative stuff permaculturists are doing without tech.

Factory farmers = Microsoft/Windows

Small scale farmers = Open Source/Linux