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Back in the '60's a few of my IBM customers still had 705 vacuum tube computers like the one above. I'll never forget them.
Then in 1964, IBM revolutionized the business world with System 360 solid-state computers. What an exciting time it was to be in what was then called the data processing industry. What a glorious era it was for IBM.
What is still hard for me to believe is that I am typing this post on a laptop with far more power than those groundbreaking System 360 computers.
I see this leading edge urban food production system from Valcent in the U.K. as analogous to the vacuum tube computer age, not yet at the System 360 stage.
Just as it has been in the computer age, it will be interesting to look back on the VertiCrop system as we travel through a new age of urban food production.
It is the future and in my view, we in America are lagging behind thanks to our retrogressive horticultural establishment that is still so much in love with dirt.
Wow! vertical farming is really here today. Like it. this could be a huge investment opportunity, no?
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Posted by: Arnauld Grassin Delyle | February 05, 2011 at 03:03 AM