>>11963313Land is not expensive if you inherit it. Farming is an oligarchy. Asset rich, cash poor.
But yes. If we say, have acess to cheap hydrogen and fusion power. Then we can build floating skyscraper cities in the ocean.
People say the carrying capacity of the earth has been reached. I say they lack imagination.
Anyway some plants have lower light requirements than others. I doubt broadscale farming will ever be obsolete as seedcrops would be pretty unmanageable in an indoor farming situation. It's all a step in the right direction but as with so many other things this is something else which is dependant upon the development of other technologies.
