[ben_w]

In a very real sense, food was solved by the first two industrial revolutions, which between them supplied enough artificial muscle power to move most of us out of farming, and enough understanding of biology to bring us industrial-scale fertilisers.

We're living through yet another power revolution today, between renewables and batteries (and while I won't count it until it's commercialised, we've gone from fusion being decades away to years away).

FTL… well, like most nerds I've got a soft spot for the Alcubierre drive and the various follow-up papers. But for now, sure, I'd assume by default that any news headline I see about someone making even a sub-light 1 µc version (I guess 1 µc would be sub-sonic, too) to be either an AI hallucination or something like The Onion.