Caleb Harper: This computer will grow your food in the future
كاليب هاربر: الحاسوب هو الذي سيربي طعامك في المستقبل
Caleb Harper leads a group of engineers, architects, urban planners, economists and plant scientists in the exploration and development of high performance urban agricultural systems. Full bio
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it's too little food,
تنقذ العالم.
creating bad oceans, toxic oceans,
سيئة و محيطات سامة،
of this discussion
to something that we understand?
نستطيع فهمه ؟
in the last week, I'm sure.
الأسبوع الماضي.
from when it was picked?
منذ لحظة قطفها؟
in a grocery store in the United States.
في الولايات المتحذة
to be much different in Europe
في أوروبا
into these environments
الى هذه البيئات
of the apple with is also toxic to humans.
الذي يسبب التسمم عند البشر.
of that apple --
by the time we get it.
في الوقت الذي نحصل فيه عليها.
when I was young.
and I could express myself.
و أستطعت أن أعبر عن نفسي.
to question: What if?
ماذا لو؟
the least productive in red.
و الأقل إنتاجا بالأحمر.
now become Mexican farmers.
الان أصبحو مزارعين مكسيكين.
to grow better food,
لتزرع طعام أفضل,
its own productive climate?
about quality of life and nutrition?
was, we need more food
نحتاج طعام أكثر
trains and automobiles.
و قطارات و عجلات.
seven billion people
in the production of food.
في انتاج الطعام.
no water, no land and no future."]
و لا أرض و لا مستقبل."
that I went to Minamisanriku,
فيه ميناميسانركي
of their own food.
is involved in farming.
في الزراعة.
from two percent of any population?
اثنين بالمئة من سكان أي بلد؟
population is under 18.
تحت سن 18
farmer is miserable.
to have basic access to utilities,
على الحصول على الخدمات الأساسية
and the previous 10 before that.
السابقة أكثر من ال10 السابقة.
that inspires the youth?
and Home Depot
intimate relationships
the language of plants.
that nobody wants.
inside of the media lab,
داخل مختبر الاعلام
not for anything about biology
بأي شيء عن البيولوجيا
about 300 people once a month --
300 شخص مرة في الشهر--
technology in there.
ripped the roots off of anything.
بنزع الجذور لأي شيء
processing expert,
على صور,
bring the plants out
you don't throw it away;
لا ترميها;
anything until I've eaten it first,
قبل أن آكله أنا أولاّ,
of a lettuce within .1.
حتى عشر الواحد.
no, you can't eat it today."
لا, لا تستطيع أن تأكل هذا اليوم."
because the plant had been stressed
in the plant to protect itself:
ليحمي نفسه:
taste sweet to me.
بالنسبة لي.
into plant physiology.
في علم وظائف أعضاء النبات.
needed to be able to try this.
للقيام بتجربة هذا.
that could be shipped anywhere.
الى أي مكان.
of the media lab is my lab,
يأتي مختبري,
of sensing per plant.
استشعار لكل نبات.
the strawberries from Mexico,"
from the climate
that you like.
a recipe -- you're coding
تخلق وصفة -- أنت برمجتها
the nutrition of that plant,
الغذاء لهذا النبات,
the color, the texture.
لونه, ملمسه.
fortune-telling eyes
late 60s and 70s.
و ال70 من العمر.
see that plant dying
النبات يموت
a calcium deficiency
أو نقص الكالسيوم
are not being passed down.
to individual plants.
in my lab that day, by IP address.
ذلك النهار, عبر عنوان برتوكول الانترنت.
الانترنت.
and you get a plant profile.
و تحصل على ملف شخصي للنبات,
is downloadable progress on that plant,
للتنزيل,
the nutrition that I need?
the taste that I desire?
انه متحدث,
on the plant Facebook, right?
النباتات , صحيح ؟
friends with other plants
نباتات أخرى
I don't know, they might friend us back,
و قد توافق على طلب صداقتنا,
in hospitals of all things,
المستشفيات لكل شئ,
a controlled environment.
with all kinds of things.
by NASA for Mir Space Station
من (ناسا) لمحطة مير الفضائية
they send into space.
exactly what it wants:
تماما ما يحتاجه من:
you get this amazing expression.
هذا التعبير المدهش.
and seed for an adverse world
و بذرة لعالم سلبي
in commercial production for 150 years.
rare and ancient seed banks?
و القديمة؟
and things that you've never eaten.
that's eaten that kind of tomato.
من هذا النوع من الطماطم.
and we don't know how to cook,
لا نعرف كيف نطبخه,
which is not that great.
لذيذا جدا.
we've grown all kinds of things.
ربينا كل أنواع الأشياء
it was too expensive.
around the world
in their back pocket isn't easy,
في جيبه الخلفي ليس سهلا,
one of my student's --
undergraduate, Camille.
how to make it work better,
people can make it.
seventh through eleventh grade.
والحادي عشر.
try to teach a kid something.
طفل ما شيئا
said, "What's humidity?"
"ما هي الرطوبة؟"
in air, you're an idiot."
and eventually drip.
for this that's much like a game.
the physical, the sensors.
الحساسات.
been created by other kids
they plant a seedling.
need CO2 anyway? Isn't CO2 bad?
أوكسيد الكربون؟
that they developed
الذي قاموا بتطويره
and what did it do --
of processing.
as we call them,
ever thought he could be a farmer --
في أن يصبح مزارعا --
your first food computer.
بناء أول حاسوب طعام خاص بك.
I'm just telling you.
but it's all there.
that this is easily accessible.
computer scientist,
economist, urban planners.
what they're good at.
that I'm just starting.
kind of like this.
and this DARPA Grand Challenge winner
وكالة أبحاث الدفاع المتقدم الكبيرة
we're getting ahead of Ebola.
the protein that's Ebola resistant.
property that's totally valuable.
ثمينة جدا.
we're just at the beginning,
environmentally friendly food.
what's in the Chicken McNugget,
كرات الدجاج,
food item of all time --
their marketing plan on that --
to put little climate recipes,
فيها وصفات مناخية صغيرة,
و تشغلها و تنميها.
connected by strings?
to share information.
over what's wrong with this.
السيء في هذا.
the next one billion farmers
التالي من المزارعين
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Caleb Harper - Principal Investigator and Director of the Open Agriculture InitiativeCaleb Harper leads a group of engineers, architects, urban planners, economists and plant scientists in the exploration and development of high performance urban agricultural systems.
Why you should listen
What do we know about the food we eat? What if there was climate democracy? These and other questions inform the work of Caleb Harper and his colleagues as they explore the future of food systems. He is the principal investigator and director of the Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAG) at the MIT Media Lab. Under his guidance, a diverse group of engineers, architects, urbanists, economists and plant scientists (what he calls an “anti-disciplinary group”) is developing an open-source agricultural hardware, software and data common aiming to create a more agile, transparent and collaborative food system.
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