re: #25 retired cynic

We were talking the other day about how farming has changed, and how computers were in the cabs of the tractors. Well…

Is the world ready for the farmerless tractor?

Rudyard Kipling predicted just such over a hundred years ago, in his short story “Easy as ABC”, set in the 21st century:

“The girl laughed, and laid aside her knitting. An old-fashioned Controller stood at her elbow, which she reversed from time to time, and we could hear the snort and clank of the obedient cultivator half a mile away, behind the guardian woods.”