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   Earth Colored Eyes

   November 19, 2021 at 3:50 am

   My question to Mr. Gates is this… Are you competing with the Saudi’s for commercial farmland? Is that why you are buying as much as you can? As they are already owners of land in California and other parts of the US.

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     Ben Glasser

     November 19, 2021 at 8:35 am

     he’s getting ahead of the comming age of omnipresence. we have several converging technologies that will empower a large percentage of Americans to live anywhere they want, and I’m betting he sees many of them moving out to the exurbs and beyond. The same migration happened at the beginning of the industrial revolution as cars and well constructed roads enabled people to move out of the cities and away from the factories in which they worked.

     Now we are seeing the convergence of telepresence, autonomous driving, 3d printing, viable personal energy generation empowered by advances in storage, and global internet coverage. The only thing people wont readily have access to as easily as everything else is water and food. Farmland is going to be a hot commodity this decade and the next as people realize that with a good chunk of land, a 3d printer, some solar panels, and an internet connection is all they need to thrive in the modern world. We will no longer be relegated to congregating around shopping centers and office parks. I actually think that autonomous driving will allow us to reclaim huge portions of land in cities and suburbs which have been paved over to store cars that are’t being driven. Driveways witll become front lawns, and garages will become new additions to existing homes. We won’t recognize the world we live in in the next 20 years.

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   Arturo A

   November 19, 2021 at 1:50 pm

   Don’t come back Chang, Beijing is calling…

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