I predict within 30 years, it will be popular to own a backyard swarm of small robots that will tend a garden during the growing season. Pesticides will not be needed because the robots will hunt the bugs. Big backyards will become an important feature when buying a house. It will be cheaper AND more convenient than going to the store to buy your produce. Big ag and silicon valley will be bummed because the best home farming software will be open source and free.
Let's hope those robots can fend off transgenic outcrossing. Anything that could conceivably disrupt Monsanto's monopolistic greed over food would be a boon for local and organic farmers [1].
