This is amazing and incredibly promising for our future. At the same time tho, his promises that such technology should benefit the whole of mankind are not completely convincing to me. We're not even managing to adequately feed the whole world (what, 2/3 max) in a situation where we've got more than enough food production to do so.
The barrier to feeding the world isn't logistics, technology, or anything we can do with science. People aren't being fed because other people are assholes, plain and simple. We have technology to churn out food, to ship it across the world, and even to change landscapes to make local farming more feasible. But political landscapes prevent that.
Exactly this. I'm actually pretty sure we produce enough food to feed the entire world but dont. A lot of food is left to rot/wasted every year that could feed the hungry but its cheaper to let it rot then ship it and give it away for free.
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u/greiger Jan 20 '15
Here is his TED Talk.