Here East of Eden in John Steinbeck Country I have seen great strides in Agriculture, particularly in water conservation, pesticides and fertilizer reductions, process automation, refrigeration, storage, distribution, sanitation, data metrics, product safety while reducing spoilage. Its clear technology increase yield in the Salinas Valley, the salad bowl of America. The farm laborers remain the most important resource, as always, and I hope they will benefit from the specialized training in this brave new technology sector. I think that science is good for humanity, namely everyone involved in eating food, but its up to the people who implement the science, commerce, and laws that govern our civility, ethics and compassion. Human nature matters the most, in my opinion. If we can avoid the intellectual, proprietary warfare that costs everyone in society, not just power brokers. We are all stakeholders on this Ship of Fools and I hope then we can cooperate, innovate, and share prosperity, sustainably, and all come out ahead. If people conduct themselves with fairness, honesty, and consideration of the mutual benefit of feeding humanity then we'll benefit. It is entirely up to us not to behave like our dysfunctional, quaint, 18th century government that seems to be struggling with scaling up to modern population. I believe that we should behave like Steinbeck protagonists: Doc Rickets and mother nature, and our neighbors as best that we can, but I think John Steinbeck really understood how that depends on how we behave, not what we posses, in this life of mice and men