Since the agricultural revolution millennia ago, farmers have worked with their hands. Now, the next agricultural revolution might work with artificial intelligence. That's the vision of Sara Menker, a former Wall Street trader who left her lucrative job at 29 years old to start Gro Intelligence, a software platform for agricultural data and analytics. The company harvests large amounts of data from a variety of sources--weather stations, government agencies, trade organizations, to name a few--and processes it into a "language that normalizes all of it" for companies to build predictive models around agriculture. "One of the things we realized is that agriculture is not just four or five crops," Menker said Tuesday at the Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit in Toronto.

THE UK public is well-informed and positive about science and technology, but its hopes and fears are largely being ignored by politicians. That is the key finding of an exclusive New Scientist survey of public attitudes to science, technology, medicine and the environment. The 2018 New Scientist Asks the Public survey reveals that the issues uppermost in people's minds are genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, cancer and climate change. They believe these things are "most likely to have an impact on society and human life". But people are not expecting a sci-fi apocalypse – public opinion is surprisingly upbeat.