One popular alternative to the current political-economic landscape of food lies in bringing agriculture to the modern, technologically advanced age though big data. For agriculture, big data is just what it sounds like, collecting vast amounts of data from crop and weed locations, soil and weather conditions, and pesticide and herbicide use. There are several […]
Autonomous Vehicles And Fuel Emission Estimations
Introduction Autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars, are the transportation of the future if investments from car companies, tech companies, and governments are any indication. Most major car companies and several tech giants including Apple, Uber, and Microsoft are all working on having autonomous vehicles on the market by 2020 (Bansal and Kockelman 2016). In […]
Assessing the Impacts of Autonomous Technology in Agricultural Systems
Background For this project, autonomous technology, or artificial intelligence (AI), is described as “systems in which the designer has not predetermined the responses to every condition. Such systems are capable of surprising their designers and behaving in unexpected ways” (Omohundro 2014). This technology is attractive, especially in militaristic and economic contexts, because of the ability […]