Computers will grow your food in the future

The Caleb Harper from TedTalk introduced his idea with an apple. How long was an apple picked beforeit finds itself on a self in a grocery store. The answer was, on average in the U.S., 11 months. ELEVEN MONTHS!!! That is a lot of time. I don't know how about anyone else but I can't keep food in my fridge for more than 2 weeks before signs of mold shows up around my food. So how is it that these apples are able to survive for 11 months and still look fresh when they're placed on the self? The apples are put into a cold storage and then gassed. The bad part about this is that the gas is toxic. There are evidence that employeees sometimes tries to take some of the apples from the cold storage and dying. How is it that we never knew about this before? Also most of the antioxidants are gone by the time it reaches us; "it is basically a little ball of sugar" (Harper).

The was very confusing at first because Harper was bombarding us with a lot of information. But from what I got out of it, his team was making green vegetables grow in a controlled lab by controlling the environment in that lab. Basically, he was coding the environment. Obviously, many of the plants died in the beginning so they put sensors in the to determine such things like humidity, pH, and calcuim level  to see why the plants are dying. By the end, they were able to use computers to talk to the plants: when the plant is ripe, if the plant needs more water, the sun is too bright. The best part was that they were able to grow plants that is super rare.

Harper is now trying to teach others how to grow plants using a game that shows a virtual farm lab. The virtual lab teaches people why the plant needs or doesn't need carbon dioxide by letting them change the percentage of CO2 in the virtual lab, this way the user came see right away if the plant dies. And if the plant survives, they just created a new recipe or a new unqiue ratio for this plant. I think that this is a great idea because it teaches people about farming and what is needed for plants to survive. In the past and even now, people don't want to be farmers because it is hard labor. But now electrical enginners are able to grow plants! In the future, we don't have to eat a sphere of sugar that is called an apple, instead we can actually eat fresh apples that we created ourselves and made for one person's tastebudds.

Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEx6K4P4GJc