GENOMICON

One of my favourite concepts: “in the end, everything comes true… but not usually in the way you expect”

(from physorg : via botjunkie)

Looks like the droids off the end of Silent Running have finally come to life, as it were… along with one of my other favourite concepts “In the future, every tree will have its own gardener“… though to be honest, from the look of it, the plants might be better off just being put outside somewhere and left alone.

As far as pollination goes… don’t scoff, when I was a kid, one of the chore-type things we used to have to do was to manually pollinate passionfruit vines… we’d get a little paintbrush and transfer pollen from on flower to another. Mai god, what a tedious job that was. Small price to pay for passionfruit though I suppose. If you can get your kids to do it.

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Looking at this again I feel kindof overwhelmed about what an incredible long way we’ve got to go… until I realise how incredibly fast this is moving.

By the way, are these things basically just Roombas with laptops stuck on the back of them?

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And the other thing of course is, I know damn well that somewhere down the line someone will discover that looking after plants works better than prozac… so long as you keep away from the back-breaking industrial scale stuff.