2024-11-23T07:24:11-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150052196/new-ground-ii-countryside-2030 Hannah Wood 2018-02-28T12:56:00-05:00 >2018-04-16T06:43:01-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7u/7uj7capmkiok6vem.gif" border="0" /><p>New Ground II, the second installment of Archinect&rsquo;s two-part feature series on the contemporary countryside, is playfully set in rural California in the year 2030. Certain trends Christine Bjerke and I dug into in last month&rsquo;s feature, <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150047669/new-ground-i-advancing-the-countryside" target="_blank">New Ground I: Advancing the Countryside</a>, have been extrapolated to present a future pastoral landscape, recognizable yet markedly different than that which we might encounter today. We discuss this future outlook with <a href="http://www.bratton.info/" target="_blank">Benjamin Bratton</a>, director of the <a href="http://designgeopolitics.org/" target="_blank">Center for Design and Geopolitics</a> at the <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/2790184/university-of-california-san-diego" target="_blank">University of California, San Diego</a> and author of <a href="http://amzn.to/2otT7Kv" target="_blank">The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty</a> and Martin Abell from the agricultural robotics firm <a href="http://www.precisiondecisions.co.uk/" target="_blank">Precision Decisions</a>, the first company to farm a field without human intervention.</p>