agriculture

6 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Frank Chen · across every show →

Everything said about agriculture, oldest first

Jul 16, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frank Chen: Vision AI will shift farming to plant-by-plant fertilization
“And so when AI makes it cheap for us to see and understand what's going on in the world, we won't fertilize fields anymore. We will fertilize individual heads of lettuce.”
Frank Chen Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 10:40 The Promise of AI
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Dixon: Agriculture consumes 80 percent of fresh water on Earth
“80% of fresh water on earth is used by agriculture.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:01 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Krintz: Agriculture Is Tremendously Underserved By Technology
“We believe that agriculture is tremendously underserved by technology. It's been left behind in both software and hardware, although hardware has done a little bit better than software.”
Chandra Krintz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:16 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Sid Gorham: Climate Adaptation in Farming Requires Market-Based Solutions
“I think the only way agriculture evolves with the pressure of global warming is through those types of market-based solutions, and that, that requires farmers know, know their business.”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:54 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
James Rogers: Synthetic pesticides inevitably harm beneficial organisms alongside targeted pests
“The problem is, is that those processes that we generally interfere with are really valuable processes. That's why they've stuck around for so long, and so they're used by many, many, many different types of life forms, and so it's incredibly challenging to po…”
James Rogers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:12 a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
Aug 3, 2023 positive
Opinion
Julia Collins: Agriculture is a technology despite market valuation
“Agriculture can be a technology. Although the market doesn't always value it as such. Yes. It is technology.”
Julia Collins Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 12:19 Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates
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