Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unintended Consequences, Monism, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
19 Apr 2018
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Tomato harvesting altered by large machines and sorted electronically in large tubs; before picked by hands. New varieties of tomatoes; genetically modified (cid:498)hard(cid:499) tomatoes. Machines employed to save time and money, while increasing production. Use of machines and efficiency comes at cost; machines are big and expensive, only largest farms can afford to buy this new technology and cut workers with machines. Only handful of private interests actually benefit from this practise. Farm workers replaced by machines, small farmers outsold by bigger farms. From invention of tomato farmer in efficiency, social problems that popped up as result of its adoption, all example of technique at work. Move toward bigger, faster, cheaper is built on government, larger desire to produce more food as possible in least amount of time, with little money, has completely revolutionized the industry. While it has flooded our cities with affordable meats, it has hidden costs on consumers because of how food is grown, packaged and delivered.
