Journey 2050 Lesson 7: Technology & Innovation | Self-Guided Experience

This is the

journey 2050 self-guided experience
you are on.

Lesson seven on Innovation in Technology.

For step two of this lesson,

you're going to pause this video and start
watching the TEDx talk.

That's called a global food crisis.

Maybe less than a decade away.

Note that you're only going to watch
the first two minutes and 29 seconds

of this particular TEDx talk,
and then you're going to consider

a statement that Sara makes in this TEDx
talk in response to it on your handout.

After you're done with step two, move
right on to step three

and that is to watch the journey 2050
Technology

and Innovation video
and then answer the three questions.

So with those instructions, pause
this video until you

finish step three on your handout.

You should have

just finished the Technology
and Innovation video.

And hopefully you have also answered
the three questions.

But just to,

reiterate this reflection
just a little bit,

make sure that you take time

to think about which innovation
you think is most impactful

and what some of the pros
and cons of these new technologies

could be in relation
to our sustainability.

For step four of the lesson,
I want to discuss

just a little bit
to make sure you understand the difference

between a developing country
and a developed country.

Developed countries are industrialized.

They have high standards of living.

They have strong economic growth.

Developing
countries are typically agrarian,

meaning that they're not industrialized.

They're more centered around agriculture
with more people

participating in agriculture.

They also have lower

standards of living, and they quite often
have a weak economy with slow

or even nonexistent growth.

So make sure that you keep these in mind,

as we move on to step four.

For step

four of the lesson,
you're going to pause this video

and go back to the Ted talk
that you started in step two,

how you're going to finish,
watching the rest of the Ted talk

and answer the questions on your handout.

We're now on step five of your handout.

And what I want to do in this step
is really try to pull

a lot of things together
that we've learned

throughout the entire journey
2050 program.

We're coming to the end.
We're almost there.

I want to ask you a question.

How do consumers like yourself influence
what producers grow?

Take a minute to just

think about that and think about you
yourself as a consumer.

How do you influence what producers grow?

If you think back to lesson

four on economies, we talked
about the law of supply and demand,

and we discussed how
when there is a high demand,

that the price prices go up and more
things are produced.

When there's low demand, prices go down
and less of

that will eventually be produced.

So you as a consumer
have the ability to influence

what producers or farmers?

Same thing.

What producers grow and how they grow it.

So your choices will impact
overall sustainability

throughout your life.

In summary, I want to talk about

three ways we can expand
our capacity to produce food.

The first is

by developing and implementing
new technologies.

We talked about best management practices
throughout the journey 2050 program.

Those best management practices
are going to change throughout your life

as new things are discovered, as research
is done, and we're going to continue

finding better ways and better
technologies to use our resources wisely.

The second is to help developing countries

improve their farming efficiency.

The third and the last is learning
how consumer choices

can either support or challenge food
sustainability.

To finish up this lesson,

go ahead and review the key points
that are found at the end of your handout.

Congratulations!

This marks the end of the entire journey
2050 program.

You should at this point
be able to answer the question

how can we sustainably feed
nearly 10 billion people by the year 2050?

Hope you've enjoyed the path.