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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

How AI and Genomics Are Reshaping Farming

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“The time for vertical farming is here,” says Mike Zelkind, co-founder and CEO of 80 Acres Farms. He joins Azeem Azhar to explore what’s broken in the food supply chain, and how a new breed of high-tech, indoor farms could deliver better, tastier food using a fraction of the resources.

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H.B.R. presents. Hi everyone I'm Azimazar and you are listening to the Exponential View podcast.

0:35.0

Now every week I come together with a brilliant mind to discuss the near future in our rapidly changing world.

0:42.0

Now my guest today is Mike

0:43.7

Zielkind, he is the co-founder and CEO of 80 Acres Farm and he is at the

0:48.9

Vanguard of a movement to transform inefficient and unsustainable and occasionally cumbersome food

0:55.8

system.

0:56.8

His vision is bold.

0:57.8

It's a huge network of urban indoor farms that produce crops all year round for their local areas, all grown pesticide-free, powered

1:06.8

by renewable energy.

1:08.6

Now this is no bucolic fantasy, we're talking about climate controlled multi-story buildings bathed in purple LED light

1:15.5

where almost every aspect of a plant's life is informed by data.

1:20.8

Now before we get started a quick note to say we have a small audience of

1:23.9

exponential view premium members listening in on to the recording and

1:26.9

they'll have the opportunity to feed me questions for Mike throughout the

1:29.8

discussion. To become a member go to W.

1:35.0

Well Mike, welcome to the Exponential View podcast.

1:38.0

Azim, thank you for having me.

1:40.0

I'm quite a fan, so I'm really excited about having this conversation with you.

1:46.3

We met not too long ago and you shared with me your quite damning critique about the way that the

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