PLANTS WILL TALK, AND ROBOTS WILL LISTEN
Jun 06, 2019
3 minutes
Words Euan Ferguson
he first ever biotechnologists lived about 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, although it’s doubtful their Akkadian or Aramaic language knew a word for that profession. As they cultivated their Neolithic ‘founder crops’, they were in fact carrying out the earliest intervention in the grown landscape beyond simple picking. The word ‘biotechnology’ – the hacking of living organisms to improve human life – has been in use since the early 20th century, but these
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