“Turn the wayback machine Mr. Peabody.”
Believe it or not, there was a time when the 3-point hitch was not a standard. Introduced in the 1920s, the 3-point hitch was a breakthrough in tractor implement design. Decades later, it came standard on nearly every tractor, quietly doing its job and eventually universally accepted. It just worked. That’s what innovations do: they fade into the background, becoming the foundation everything else is built upon.
Case in point: we recently deployed an autonomous unit in one of the most remote parts of the country – no cellular, no data, nothing. Ten years ago, that would’ve stopped us cold. Today? There’s this wonderful system called StarLink. We plugged it in and were running in mere minutes. To be perfectly honest, we were indeed running in minutes, but we then spent a couple of days verifying it was resilient.
Integrating StarLink into our system was straightforward because our system had the 3-point hitch of interfaces – WiFi. To put things in perspective, those two days of testing gave us access to all 2.4 billion acres of land in the U.S.
This is where things get really interesting in regards to the future of AgTech. As technology becomes more adaptable and standardized, it also becomes more invisible. And that’s when it becomes unstoppable.
– Craig
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