SummaryVertical farming has the potential to unlock multiplicative yield gains per area of land and catalyze development of new technologies (precision farming, rapid genetic engineering, robotics based automation, etc.). Making this transition will exponentially benefit humanity (and other denizens of earth) in multiple ways.However, the current focus of indoor / vertical farming is fresh produce. Here, I make the argument that in order to reduce reduce agricultural land use and obtain maxim...

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