This is our final post in the “Grow your Own Alien” series. Read the previous posts at www.ekalore.com/alien-invaders
Our previous posts introduced the idea of Agriculture as a fertile ground for Alien Invasion, gave a basic outline of how this could happen. Today’s post talks about what it will mean.
Based on our earlier posts, we believe the implications to societies, cultures, and governments are non-trivial and some beyond our scope – talk to EkaLore for more depth.
1) Agricultural capital for equipment, services, education, and investment in data will change nation-state level capital and budget resource allocation.
2) Workforces will decline in less educated, less literate, rural areas and increase in the need for broadly educated, well trained, in areas with high technology dependence. Note that this is the exact opposite of the ‘plantation’ models known since literally the beginning of history.
3) Enterprises operating at a global scale may grow in size, and power, by 2-10 fold. Money, expertise, and technology will matter – on all sides.
4) Throughout the G7 trends to fewer, larger footprint, and greater revenue operations have been growing for more than half a century. In key nations such as Russia, China, Japan, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia levels of self-sufficiency in food/agriculture are seen as critical. Governments have monopolies, no control at all, and many patterns of field crop economics. The trends in each of those countries will react differently than the G7.
5) Patterns of global trade will change. Will ‘domestic data residency’ be a requirement for agricultural enterprises? Will there be a specific GDPR/CCPA for farming data?
6) Regulatory compliance and conformance attestations may transform. Shipping the ‘data’ showing testimonies to the methods and actions for a specific crop lot may become just as important as self-attested ‘organic farming’ certifications.
7) Local control and administration may change. If all the optimization and market operations for exported crops are managed ‘in the cloud’ outside the country the role of local bureaucrats and administration will change.
And the value to become an Alien Invader will increase.
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