Hundreds of Millions of Farmers Across The Globe Face The Advances In Agricultural Software And Robotics That Will Lead To Higher Yields And Fewer Workers

The high-technology revolution is not normally associated with farming. Yet some of the most impressive advances in automation are occurring in agriculture. New breakthroughs in the information and life sciences threaten to end much of outdoor farming by the middle decades of the coming century. The technological changes in the production of food are leading to a world without farmers, with untold consequences for the 2.4 million people who still rely on the land for their survival. (what use is there for people when the world is run by machines? why bother feeding millions of unemployed useless eaters when a machine can replace a person ?)