Saturday 10 August 2019

Back to the Future

This is so cool it gives me chills! First, read John Muir writing about Los Angeles in the late 1870s. It's Chapter 10 - The San Gabriel Valley, on page 79 of Steep Trails by John Muir. On a ten acre property planted with an orange grove generating 20,000 dollars income from the sale  of one year's crop after eighteen years:
 Two thousand dollars per acre per annum from land worth only one hundred dollars.




This is what it looked like in 1915. From http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/19794/Los+Angeles+and+the+San+Gabriel+Mountains+1915/Los+Angeles+and+the+San+Gabriel+Mountains+1915/California/


Now listen to Jesse DuBois on urban farming in Los Angeles.


Silicon Valley meets San Gabriel Valley: see Agricultural Automation Done Right.


You get some really weird coincidences on YouTube:


See Feynman on Patents and the Value of an Idea.

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