The concluding take-home messages in the monograph “Future of Agriculture” (Kern, M., 2000a,b) presented at EXPO Hanover, Germany, August 15-17, 2000, were: “Over the last few decades, progress has been made at a previously unimaginable rate in the most varied branches of scientific research – agriculture included. At the present time, in the year 2000, we can draw on a potential of over six billion people – as compared with only one billion in 1850 – for the knowledge we will need tomorrow. It must be remembered that developments in agriculture are properly understood in hindsight, but we will need foresight to build up knowledge and technologies and put them into use at the right moment. We should not make the mistake, as almost all generations do, of underestimating our own potential for innovation, i.e. for new ideas and discovery. It is already time to tackle the question: “What will be equivalent in the twenty-first century of the discovery of the electron and of DNA?”

Today, in 2025, it can be said that this is “artificial intelligence”.

Benchmarks in Agriculture: From Precision Agriculture (Kern, M., 2000), via DNA-®evolution of Agriculture (Kern, M., 2015), via Digital Agriculture (Kern, M., 2015), via Decision AI Impowered Agriculture (Kern, M., 2019, 2023), via Molecular Agriculture (Kern, M., 2023), via “Agriculture 5.0” (Kern, M., 2025), via Second Green Revolution (Kern, M., 2026) via Designed Agriculture (Kern, M., 2030 in press) to Space/Mars Agriculture (Kern, M., 2052* in prep.).