I wonder if they're attempting to prevent this by not including the crown... It's quite easy, if time consuming, to grow a new pineapple from an old pineapple's crown.
I wonder if they're attempting to prevent this by not including the crown... It's quite easy, if time consuming, to grow a new pineapple from an old pineapple's crown.
Does creating and selling a $400 pineapple help with the science of creating crops that are useful for most of the world who live on not much money? From 2018 there's this piece that says 48% of...
Another story that came to mind for me is Cory Doctorow’s novella “Unauthorized Bread”, from the Radicalized Anthology. It’s about refugees jailbreaking their appliances to circumvent DRM and...
Another story that came to mind for me is Cory Doctorow’s novella “Unauthorized Bread”, from the Radicalized Anthology. It’s about refugees jailbreaking their appliances to circumvent DRM and vendor lock-in.
Maybe? I didn't look close enough, so apologies if it's true. I suppose I didn't consider that an over priced fruit experiment would come out at the same time in two colours.
Maybe? I didn't look close enough, so apologies if it's true. I suppose I didn't consider that an over priced fruit experiment would come out at the same time in two colours.
The pinkglows are around $11 bucks at Costco (per the internet) so they're definitely different levels of custom pineapple but yeah, no worries, I'd try a pink one for fun maybe, but not a Ruby
The pinkglows are around $11 bucks at Costco (per the internet) so they're definitely different levels of custom pineapple but yeah, no worries, I'd try a pink one for fun maybe, but not a Ruby
I’ll wait for the open-source version.
I wonder if they're attempting to prevent this by not including the crown... It's quite easy, if time consuming, to grow a new pineapple from an old pineapple's crown.
That's almost certainly exactly what they are doing.
Does creating and selling a $400 pineapple help with the science of creating crops that are useful for most of the world who live on not much money? From 2018 there's this piece that says 48% of the world population live on less than $5.50 per day.
Is there any science fiction about people in those countries either ignoring the IP, or doing their own engineering?
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/isaac-asimov/good-taste.htm
Not quite but perhaps similar to what you were looking for
Another story that came to mind for me is Cory Doctorow’s novella “Unauthorized Bread”, from the Radicalized Anthology. It’s about refugees jailbreaking their appliances to circumvent DRM and vendor lock-in.
I'm both sure that this is a topic covered by SF authors and also sure that I cannot find the right search terms.
Sorted Food already "reviewed" it if you're interested.
I think the Pink glow and Ruby glow are different?
They are, according to the article.
Maybe? I didn't look close enough, so apologies if it's true. I suppose I didn't consider that an over priced fruit experiment would come out at the same time in two colours.
The pinkglows are around $11 bucks at Costco (per the internet) so they're definitely different levels of custom pineapple but yeah, no worries, I'd try a pink one for fun maybe, but not a Ruby