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How Can Bitcoin Help Emancipate Billions And Help Food Security

July 20, 2015 / EXPO 2015, Finance, Food, Technology

Through the fundamental invention of the Blockchain, we now have a tool that, through the use of planet-wide communications networks and smartphones, can put a Western city-dweller and an Indonesian fisherman on equal footing Through the fundamental invention of the Blockchain, we now have a tool that, through the use of planet-wide communications networks and […]

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Decentralization is the next wave of sustainable growth in food production

June 12, 2015 / Energy, EXPO 2015, Food, Technology

A new wave of technologies and global communication are benefiting decentralized and distributed organizations that are outcompeting centralized and hierarchical ones. In our quest to feed an increasing worldwide population, through the industrial revolution of the 19th century and the green revolution in industrial agriculture a few decades ago, the tendency has been to centralize.

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Exploding food productivity through plant labs

May 6, 2015 / EXPO 2015, Food, Technology

The urbanized world can achieve very high levels of food productivity using novel techniques of lighting and growing that make a large variety available locally in the cities to all. We live in an urbanized planet. The United Nations estimates that 53% of the worldwide population lives in cities. And this is bound to increase in

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How the 3D printer revolution is changing the food we eat

April 30, 2015 / EXPO 2015, Food, Manufacturing

What, why and how you eat is going to change radically in the next decades, based on technologies that originate from the innovative manufacturing processes of 3D printing. The application of the exponential power of 3D printing from manufacturing to food is digitizing and democratizing the access to high quality, dependable culinary experiences turning an

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The exponential growth of solar energy

April 29, 2015 / Energy, EXPO 2015, Food, Technology

The distributed and digital nature of photovoltaic solar energy is going to have profound social and economic effects as its adoption gets wider thanks to exponentially decreasing costs. Our society is strongly shaped by our energy sources. When we only had human or animal muscle power available, our societies were slave based: if I had

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Exponential technologies: from information technology to food

April 18, 2015 / EXPO 2015, Food, Technology

In a fast changing world, technology plays a major role today and will do so in the future, to assure our progress and the development of mankind We adopted one of the first technologies that made humans what they are today about a hundred thousand years ago: we learned how to manage fire, and to

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