# Lisa Dyson: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food

We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people — but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- Runtime: 12 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Space
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/LisaDyson_2016S)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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