Is There a Future for Animal Farming?

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In 500 years, people will look back and think that the way we farmed animals was totally inhumane. I don't know if i agree with that in terms of the time span, but i think it's inevitable once we find alternative means. It is a little crazy to think that we would continue having animals go through that suffering unnecessarilyIf we have other means, that's just not needed. And something like growing food, or breeding animals, or cooking your own food, are things that people think humans just need to do.

"The only constant is change", they say.

In this episode, Cal and Steph discuss just how drastically the world has changed and will continue to change.

From the iPhone... to the Internet... to antibiotics... to human flight... to to the sequencing of DNA... to perhaps the most important fact that humans now live more than double as long... these developments all happened within the last 100 years.

Given that things within a single lifetime can go from being inconceivable to ubiquitous, it's mind-blowing to imagine what might be come.

They use the remainder of the episode to explore what might be to come, whether it be proactive medicine, computer-brain interfaces, printed food, digital warfare, and much more.

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