The UN thinks we should be eating more bugs. (And my mother was freaked out by sushi the first few times she saw it). There are many places in the world where insects are on the menu and supposedly a few species that are excellent dining. Some people are serious enough about it, there are even some nice recipe sites hosted by the likes of Iowa State's Entomology Club and Arizona State University - Mmmm, bug bars.
Brandon Keim at Wired brings up some good points about what it means to have an ever growing population and how it changes the world around us a bit at a time. In October 2011, we pushed bast the 7 billion humans on Earth.
According to Business Insider, there is an estimated 14.3 trillion pages on the Web. I can't find any reliable data on how fast that's growing, but this is in less than two decades and the speed at which we are adding to this is only increasing.
A great article on Next Big Future about drones and precision farming pointing out the results of using this process to manage nitrogen alone are seeing an increase of income per acre from both decreased expenditures and increased crop performance. The practice uses multispectral imagery, combined with other traditional testing methods, to identify how much seed, fertilizer or other crop supporting products to use in a given field zone.
