Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
by Chase Purdy · 15 Jun 2020 · 232pp · 63,803 words
for every reader. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Purdy, Chase, author. Title: Billion dollar burger: inside big tech’s race for the future of food / Chase Purdy. Description: [New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019056850 (print) | LCCN 2019056851 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525536949 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525536956
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, a signal that the original dream is still moving forward, like a baton from one generation to the next, in a push to recast the future of food. 3 THE MOLECULAR MIRACLE This optimistic band of new food technology start-ups has made so much progress that, in just three years, the cost
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, gray, and surrounded by small flower beds. But on the inside it holds a vast and priceless inventory of scientific wonders that will shape the future of food. This is the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), a nonprofit storage facility for all sorts of cellular cultures. Founded in 1921, the ATCC is a
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. Mark Post is not a vegan. He enjoys eating steak, plain and simple. His primary reason for working in this field is concern for the future of food security and the environment. His ultimate goal—which he’s unabashed about, even in the presence of cattle ranchers—is to reduce the global cattle
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Cells in Culture.” Available from: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21682/. “whole new industry”: Isha Datar, “The Future of Food Is Farming Cells, Not Cattle,” Quartz, October 18, 2018. https://qz.com/1383641/the-future-of-food-is-farming-cells-not-cattle/. “‘don’t play at all’”: Purdy, “The Idea for Lab-Grown Meat Was
We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
change: United Nations Foundation, “Global Agricultural Yields Could Decline 30% by 2050,” Giving Compass, September 2, 2020, https://givingcompass.org/article/climate-change-and-the-future-of-food. By 2022, 95 percent: Emily A. Vogels, Risa Gelles-Watnick, and Navid Massarat, “Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022,” Pew Research Center, August 10, 2022
Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
by Ali Tamaseb · 14 Sep 2021 · 251pp · 80,831 words
co-founder of Oscar Health, pointed to the wealth of opportunities still left to revamp healthcare. Max Mullen, who co-founded Instacart, raved about the future of food; Max Levchin of Affirm and PayPal talked about the importance of “clean water, access to food, climate change, and improvement in education.” For Neha Narkhede
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
by Jimmy Soni · 22 Feb 2022 · 505pp · 161,581 words
, May 6, 2017, https://inc42.com/features/flipkart-mafia/. “Vegan mafia”: Christina Farr, “Meet the ‘Vegan Mafia,’ a Secret Group of Investors Betting on the Future of Food,” CNBC, August 12, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/11/vegan-mafia-food-investor-network-includes-bill-maris-kyle-vogt.html. “Chris, we got
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
which he invites guests whose expertise helps him understand a topic better. In August 2023, he invited Questlove, the musician and entrepreneur, to discuss the future of food; earlier guests included the comedians Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller, who discussed the role of humor in raising awareness of diseases like Alzheimer’s. Gates
Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It
by Azeem Azhar · 6 Sep 2021 · 447pp · 111,991 words
/stockpiling-supermarkets-coronavirus> [accessed 11 September 2020]. 6 UBS, The Food Revolution, July 2019 <https://www.ubs.com/global/en/ubs-society/our-stories/2019/future-of-food/_jcr_content/mainpar/toplevelgrid_1749059381/col1/linklist/link.1695495471.file/bGluay9wYXRoPS9jb250ZW50L2RhbS91YnMvZ2xvYmFsL3Vicy1zb2NpZXR5LzIwMTkvZm9vZC1yZXZvbHV0aW9uLWp1bHkucGRm/food-revolution-july.pdf>. 7 ‘Growing Higher – New Ways to Make Vertical Farming Stack
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Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner
by Po Bronson · 14 Jul 2020 · 320pp · 95,629 words
movement seriously. Meanwhile, I hit Sand Hill Road (the road with all the fancy VCs lined up in a row) with a presentation on the future of food so they understood what we were doing. It started with a painting of a caveman in a loincloth spearing a bear while the bear was
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words
105, no. 5 (May 1954). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 13 “Dirt on Our Hands: Overcoming Botany’s Hidden Legacy of Inequality, Unearthed—Journeys into the Future of Food, Featuring James Wong,” Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Unearthed podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dirt-on-our-hands-overcoming-botanys-hidden-legacy/id1524216431?i
Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
convinced Detroit’s leaders that an aerotropolis was their city’s best chance at a future. In Amsterdam, I learned how flowers portended the airborne future of food, and while connecting through India, China, and Dubai, I met the traders who traverse the New Silk Road. The aim of this book is to
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Britain since 1992, growing an average of 9 percent annually while total imports barely budged. This, in turn, has sparked a heated debate on the future of food: Will it be locally grown, or global? And which is the right thing to do? Flowers and Food Miles In January 2007, Sir Terry Leahy
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
megacities and glowing screens off even further from the real world. The pioneering Finnish ‘solar food’ company championed[5] by Monbiot as part of the future of food, for example, says that the production hub in which it produces its ‘novel food’—a laboratory which it calls ‘Factory 01’—is part of a
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