I ran across this article on the Popular Science Website. We all wonder what will happen to farming as the world's population continues to grow. Dickinson Despommier, a scientist at Columbia University suggests that the future of farming is going to be skyscrapers that grow food and are tended by computers. The plants will be grown in cities with the use of hydroponic growing techniques. By growing food in cities where it is most likely to be consumed will cut down on transportation costs and emissions. Most experiments with this technology have been in small scale community parks. Despommier is proposing a 200 million dollar project that would take up an entire city block, and be 30 stories high!
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