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You say 'silo' as if it were a bad thing

Information storage in the AI era

When legislators want a curriculum that meets “workforce demands,” what I hear is politicians calling for grain storage techniques based on market surveys. Faculty, including those in the new emerging discipline (silo) of agricultural science, wanted to transform farming from what they viewed as backward, tradition-bound practices into a modern, scientifically based profession. The 1890 Morrill Education Act(known mostly for requiring states to either open their public university’s doors to everyone, regardless of race, or establish HBCUs as Land-grant institutions) gave both the farmers and agricultural scientists a win.

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