The original call
Original year: 2019
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Hit
Hit, and more precisely than I expected. Weed-zapping laserbots are real, commercial products now. Autonomous and self-driving tractors are shipping. Drones seed, spray, and scout fields. Precision agriculture built on real-time spatial data is the operating model of the leading operations. The only thing I got wrong was assuming everyone would already be using all of it. The technologies arrived on schedule. The adoption curve is still climbing.