ElM, crops have been around for a very very long time. While genetic engineering is new and is enormously profitable, that's a different business from owning dirt and being a machete wielding harvester. I'll stick with Zenbu, QCOM, RoamAD and Globalstar thanks.
Humans are primarily brains and cyberspace is to brains as the industrial revolution was to muscles = at least an enhancement and at best a replacement making the human redundant.
Fermenting ethanol and distilling it are old. Quarter of a century ago I was busy with R&D on ethanol as a transport fuel in Otto cycle engines. It wasn't exciting then and it's not now. It's more interesting as an emulsified additive in diesel and even more so as a fuel for fuel cells.
I very much like the idea of electrical vehicles. Squeezing the industrial revolution under the bonnet has been an amazing achievement but it's still essentially just a swarm of belts, pulleys, pistons, gears, bearings, camshafts, valves, nuts and bolts.
For city driving, Mq's vehicle design is a fuel cell in a 2 wheel or 4 wheel, single person vehicle with a motor in each wheel [a revamped motorcycle rather than a Segway for the two wheel version]. It would be an intelligent vehicle with the passenger able to leave the vehicle to do the driving using gpsOne and other position location technology especially installed for the purpose in roads, with transponders, proximity detectors, obstacle detectors etc.
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