Something tells me John Deere is going to do something with this that won't aid farmers at all
John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX
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#42It is of incredible strategic importance that tractors not become "online only". Some fucking John Deere licensing server should not become a single point of failure for the nations agriculture.
Already too late. Farmers already use quite a bit of connected technology in the field. Modern high-output farming and the cheap food we have really wouldn't be possible without it.
e.g. https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellit...
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#43John Deere & SpaceX , a match made in hell. Hopefully the world will end before they spice up their marriage and extend the offer to Tesla. Technically it makes some sense, but most of the push is because for more "data, intelligence, cloud, AI" in order to get more "value" to big agrobusinesses or anyone who can pay to stay in the party. Agriculture is already a massive business only a few gigantic corporations can…
Have you seen the cybertractor?
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#44This is a really cool precursor/testing ground for eventual off-planet remote mining/farming/industrial systems.
Grow your own food if you don't like it.
Re: John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX
#45John Deere & SpaceX , a match made in hell. Hopefully the world will end before they spice up their marriage and extend the offer to Tesla. Technically it makes some sense, but most of the push is because for more "data, intelligence, cloud, AI" in order to get more "value" to big agrobusinesses or anyone who can pay to stay in the party. Agriculture is already a massive business only a few gigantic corporations can…
Small family farming is already dead unless (a) you are willing to turn a large fortune into a small one or (b) you are willing to live in poverty.
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#46Good thing here: you can hack John Deere products on in space station since DMCA only applies in the US.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case more like, your Tractor will stop unless it can acquire a Starlink satellite over the horizon....
They're clearly just preemptively establishing planetary DRM so that the Martians can't use our own tools against us.
without signing an NDA first...
Re: John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX
#48John Deere & SpaceX , a match made in hell. Hopefully the world will end before they spice up their marriage and extend the offer to Tesla. Technically it makes some sense, but most of the push is because for more "data, intelligence, cloud, AI" in order to get more "value" to big agrobusinesses or anyone who can pay to stay in the party. Agriculture is already a massive business only a few gigantic corporations can…
Don't worry, when we ruin soil fertility and the population collapses due to loss of farmland from global warming, all this will self-correct.
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#49Interstellar - the scenes with the tractors going haywire comes to mind..