
Mention the cotton industry and people often think of its past, both glorious and nefarious—the luxury of plantation life alongside the brutality of slavery, the innovations of the Industrial Age alongside the cruelty of child labor, the unimaginable fortunes of merchants alongside the poverty of sharecroppers. But what about the cotton industry today? Future Cotton is about the industry-changing technologies that have been developed in recent decades and the breakthrough technologies that are propelling this ancient crop into the high-tech world of tomorrow.
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