According to census data, there was a drop of over 350,000 farms in America between 1978 and 2002. From my own genealogical research, I know that most of my ancestors in the 19th century were farmers. In the present generation, however, not a single one (my mom even somehow managed to kill the tomato plant growing in her space-age upside-down Topsy Turvy contraption).
But now there is a resurgence of agriculture for the modern age – online!
That’s right, the farm of the 21st century exists as ones and zeros. Technological advances by a state-of-the-art laboratory called Zynga now allow you, the humble internet citizen to grow acres of ripe, delicious, fresh produce right in your Facebook profile. This highly sophisticated program is called Farmville, and using breakthroughs in nanotechnology and matter-energy conversion, you can turn your spare time into virtual strawberries and cabbages – and your money into barns and peach trees!
Our forefathers would be proud of our cunning ingenuity.
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