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We're probably all familiar with the various super farming methods and giant farm megastructures by now, but I feel like all that might be obsolete soon. Afterall you could theoretically make food (potentially even really quick and cheaply) just from inorganic parts with no organic growing whatsoever. You could make types of food nature just can't make (even more so than now, so imagine if we could just make new species of food like potatoes) and not need to food as anything more than raw elements to be assembled when you want.
We can capture atmospheric gases and use them to turn into carbs and proteins in bioreactors. OP is positing that that'll end farming.
Have you ever synthesized or grown something?
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Yeah off earth the story changes quite a bit. On Earth, well. As you said, they do a lot of the stuff themselves plus _generally_ speaking replacing the ecosystem is considered bad. Some consider replacing chickens bad, others consider replacing whales bad, but overall there's a shockingly bipartisan consensus on us keeping the ecosystem around and since it's already there we might as well make use of it.
Personally I'm seeing a transition towards (highly machine-supported) agroforestry i.e farming alongside tree-rearing since that's exceptionally useful at stabilizing soils and metereological patterns and the aforementioned synth food can make up for whatever hits to productivity happen to occur.
I should make a post about this actually.