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batye
batye
8/2/2016 1:42:45 PM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
@DHagar in my mind anything is possible as long as power of humanity moving toward progress and true peace... not war :) 

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DHagar
DHagar
8/2/2016 1:40:16 PM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
@batye, good points.  IoT does enable new possibilities and will enable the development of new breakthroughs previously thought to be impossible.

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DHagar
DHagar
8/2/2016 1:36:05 PM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
@JohnBarnes, great vision!  It is fundamental to everyone's lives and affects us economically as consumers and/or producers.  So it should resonate with everyone.

As you put it, a "Smart" Farming would bring us back to the future with ag intelligence, precision farming, "natural" farming methods with reduced waste, and better delivery capabilties.  That would interest old and young alike and possibly regenerate this vital industry.

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batye
batye
8/2/2016 2:59:36 AM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
@JohnBarnes interestion point/observation I still remember Internet of things :) idea but slowly everything becomes reality now :) one way or other... it like watching Metropolis before great changes :) 

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batye
batye
8/2/2016 2:49:52 AM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
@DHagar like everything else in life things start small... do not give up on your dreams... also this days people create books for digital format only... like pdf :) 

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
8/1/2016 10:41:40 PM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
Skipping over the flattery (which I am nonetheless cherishing and will get you everywhere), I think the potential for IoT in agriculture is astonishing. Networked robots tending crops would basically be like extremely diligent peasants who didn't sleep or eat.  You could literally water and weed on an individual basis, kill harmful bugs by plucking them off and squishing them (or throwing them into feeding areas for the birds) so that no pesticides were needed, maybe even inject soil nutrients on a plant-by-plant basis. Harvest everything when it's just ripe, bring in samples of every diseased plant the moment a blight shows up, compost all the waste. 

And it's a natural environment for solar and wind power, too. (Or so I'm told. I side with Fran Leibowitz: the outdoors is "that unpleasant area with harsh lighting between the cab and the restaurant.") 

Kinda hard to make that exciting in fiction, though, I have to admit.  But the world already produces almost enough food, and then wastes 25-35% of it by letting bugs get it, mistimed harvests, misallocated resources, spoilage in transit, etc. If you could get the world's big wide fields, currently given over to big ag,  to turn out food at the rate and variety that a Maryland or Breton truck farm -- or a family vegetable patch in the 3rd world -- does, you could pretty much end hunger in a generation. Even an old Luddite like me can appreciate that!

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DHagar
DHagar
8/1/2016 7:56:49 PM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
@batye, there we go - That's two sales at least!  Thanks - I am with you.

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batye
batye
8/1/2016 6:53:03 PM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
@DHagar yes, I could not agree more, and please do - Ad evolution is very interesting process... - how I see it :) 

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DHagar
DHagar
8/1/2016 3:55:33 PM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
@JohnBarnes, I like that - very true.  It is just activity, which may be forward, sideways, or even backwards!

I was thinking, you should write a book on the Ag Industry and the evolution that has taken place.  I think, with your skills in painting the picture, it could be a best seller!

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
8/1/2016 2:28:41 PM
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Re: Verizon's Ag IoT
Paraphrasing Faulkner, "Progress is never easy. Much of the time it's not even progress."

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