## Metadata - Author: [[Ronald Wright]] - Full Title: A Short History of Progress - Category: #books ## Highlights - The food technology of the late Stone Age is the one technology we can't live without. The crops of about a dozen ancient peoples feed the 6 billion on earth today. Despite more than twocenturies of scientific crop-breeding, the so-called green revolution of the 196os, and the genetic engineering of the 199os, not one new staple has been added to our repertoire of crops since prehistoric times. ([Location 405](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001JAHG98&location=405))