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Hello again! Last week you didn't get an email from me - I was in NYC at the WSJ Future of Everything Festival. What does this have to do with agtech? Lots, thanks for asking! For instance, Beth Ford was there to talk about how our food system is changing - powered by technology advancements but also hindered by the lack thereof - rural broadband access is a limiting factor. 

Also, food will soon be delivered by autonomous delivery vehicles. If the future of food is a digital farmers market with autonomous last mile delivery - won't that surely change how we produce it?

Martha Stewart was there too. Beyond telling us she could design a better car than a Tesla and that she's only ordered takeout food once (pizza), she discussed a future food system based on extreme transparency - delivered to your door of course. Cannabis edibles included.

Jack Cable was there talking about a program the Department of Defense runs inviting whitehat hackers to come to hack them. Not just websites. Tanks, UAVs, battleships - anything and all things connected to a network is a feasible target. Makes me wonder if the future of food is built on connected technology - maybe the USDA should consider similar programming?

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🙌 Andy Brudtkuhl
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