Hydroponic and the Future (Different scenarios, dare to even dream, space travel, colonizing other planets, ending world hunger

Even a lot of people who wouldn’t call themselves sci-fi nerds are still really interested in some of the big ideas that came out a few decades ago about how the world might look different by 2020, 2050, or beyond. So far, a lot of what has come out of the 21^st century has been limited to stuff that we deal with on computer screens, but that’s not going to be the case forever, and no matter what we think of when we gaze into the future, there are going to be some unexpected surprises 50 or 100 years from now.

One thing that came out of science fiction involves utopian scenarios that show what might be possible for improving the human condition. There’s the idea of roving through space, building colonies on other planets or celestial bodies (like our own moon) and using our knowledge of space to expand our world. Then there’s the idea of solving big world problems like hunger, education, etc. -0 technology has already started to solve some of these problems: for example, cloud computing technology has been used to revolutionize education, and high-tech hydroponics gardening has started to change the way we view food production.

So what is the role of hydroponics in the utopian future? A lot of people who have been paying attention to the hydro gardening world see hydroponics as a key way to grow more food in smaller spaces, and also to use less labor in the production of more whole foods that are healthy and support better quality of life. This kind of “dare to dream” thinking is especially useful right now, when consumers are demanding whole foods and less processed options, though big food producers are limited in their ability to deliver higher quality unprocessed foods because of the huge costs and challenges involved in shipping them from central points to individual small communities around a country the size of America, or even across much smaller nations.

Simply put, hydroponics as a phenomenon has the ability to really make some of that futuristic change possible and it’s worth continuing to look at how today’s systems might evolve into much more sophisticated food production within, say, the next 100 years.