116. Infrastructure, Platforms, and Knowledge Graphs

Key concepts in AgTech

Infra, platforms, and knowledge graphs

“LA Confidential'' (1997) is one of my favorite movies. It is set in 1950s Los Angeles and tells the “story of a group of LAPD officers in 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity.”

At the very beginning of the movie, the mayor of Los Angeles boasts about plans to build freeways in LA.

The Arroyo Seco freeway is just the beginning.  We're planning freeways from Downtown to Santa Monica, from the South Bay to the San Fernando Valley.  Twenty minutes to work or play is the longest you'll have to travel.

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In mid 1950s, the US President Dwight D. Eisenhower kicked off the national highway system in the US, with the Federal Aid-Highway Act of 1956, sanctioning a highway system of 41,000 miles of highways.

The infrastructure of the US highway system has had a profound impact on the US economy, history, and culture. According to a study commissioned in 1996 (40th anniversary of the act of 1956), some of the benefits of the high…