🚨A robot plants rice by hand. Can tradition survive a mechanical body?
Tradition is not the same thing as repeating every difficult movement forever.
It can live in the choice of crop, the understanding of weather, and the judgment passed from one generation to the next.
A machine can take over the strain without taking over that knowledge. In fact, it may help some farms survive when fewer young people want a life built around exhausting manual work.
We often treat technology and heritage as enemies because the contrast makes a good story. Real life is usually less dramatic. The important choice is not whether farming changes. It is what we decide to preserve while it does.
What part of farming should never be automated?
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