➔ Feeding the Planet: Quantum Computing and the Future of Agriculture
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Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Dr. Michio Kaku Published: 2023, Doubleday ISBN: 978-0385548366
The Man Who Saved Half of Humanity
Chapter 8 opens with a bold claim. Half of the people alive today exist because of one man. Fritz Haber, a German chemist, figured out how to make artificial fertilizer from thin air. Literally. Most people have never heard of him.
Before Haber, the world was on a collision course with Malthus’s prediction from 1798. Population grows exponentially, food supply does not. Eventually you run out of food, and then comes famine, riots, and war. Simple math, ugly consequences.