Traditional vs. modern agriculture. In developing countries almost all traditional work flows are done by machinery. 1860: 60% of the people in the USA worked in agriculture. Today (2009) it is less than 3%.
In the future farming machinery will be automatically controlled guided by satellites. Crops produced by such methods will be very competitive on the world market and will increase the pressure on developing countries. The problem today is that only a few people benefit from the use of technology and money. But the majority of people in developed and developing countries are forced to work a great deal to avoid unemployment and make a living. Increasing economic inequality causes tension in society, resulting in crime, violence and wars. Extrapolating this trend into the future, it is evident that we need a systematic change so that society as a whole will profit from increased automation. See The Venus Project for more information.

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