The Next Big Market for Data and Connected Devices? Agriculture
26th December 2013
Popular mythology about ‘the family farm’ to the contrary notwithstanding, most food today is grown in what are essentially outdoor factories. Automation and robotics are starting to dominate these places as they have long dominated indoor factories, and have traveled under the radar of the Lamestream Media because (a) they think farmers are boring and (b) farms aren’t unionized and so don’t reflect an Undercrust pressure group.