Food Computers Are Here And They’re About To Revolutionize Agriculture

Published on March 25, 2019
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Want tastier food? Just follow the recipe. Brainchild of Caleb Harper at MIT Media Lab, this food computer is an open-source technology that lets you engineer a climate for custom crops.

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