RethinkX is an independent think tank that analyzes and forecasts the speed and scale of technology-driven disruption and its implications across society, helping investors, businesses, policymakers and civic leaders make wiser decisions.
Their newly released report on Food and Agriculture is available for download here in full and executive form and is critical reading for everyone wanting to anticipate and propser amid the rapid change presently sweeping our economy. Here’s an overview:
By 2030, the number of cows in the U.S. will have fallen by 50% and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt. All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe.
Rethinking Food and Agriculture shows how the modern food disruption, made possible by rapid advances in precision biology and an entirely new model of production we call Food-as-Software, will have profound implications not just for the industrial agriculture industry, but for the wider economy, society, and the environment.
In particular, this report offers a warning to Canada on the massive disruption coming to our economy over the next 10 years and beyond. Accepting reality and transitioning to new carbon sequestering and renewable energy farms and away from cash crops, livestock and fossil fuels is critical. The opportunities are enormous but require fresh thinking.
These should be ‘the’ issues of this election cycle in Canada and the U.S., and yet most people are, so far, fast asleep.
The 2018 report Retinkx Transportation is also mandatory reading for thinking people. Here’s the overview:
By 2030, within 10 years of regulatory approval of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), 95 percent of U.S. passenger miles traveled will be served by on-demand autonomous electric vehicles owned by fleets, not individuals, in a new business model we call “transport-as-a-service” (TaaS).
Rethinking Transportation shows how TaaS disruption will have enormous implications across the transportation and oil industries, decimating entire portions of their value chains, causing oil demand and prices to plummet, and destroying trillions in investor value — but also creating trillions in new business opportunities, consumer surplus and GDP growth.
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