Can an animal farm ever be truly humane?.How might farms be improved in the future?.If farm animals could talk, what would they say?.And I thought long and hard about the kind of farm, and the kinds of farmers, I wanted to include in this story.

I think there will be infinite kinds of farms making infinite kinds of foods. In the future, I don’t think there will be fewer kinds of food, I think there will be all kinds of food: real eggs and artificial eggs, vegetables grown in gardens and in greenhouses and in hydroponic facilities, milk from cows and sheep and goats and laboratories, and food produced with technology that hasn’t been invented yet. And some scientists predict all animal-based foods will be artificial in the future. I read books and listened to audiobooks and watched documentary films and went on research trips.įood scientists are already creating meat, eggs and dairy in laboratories, without any animals at all. What will our world look like in 50 or 100 years?Īlthough the story would have elements of science fiction and fantasy, I wanted it to seem as believable as possible, so I did plenty of research.As I thought about the future, I asked myself more questions: And there would have to be futuristic technology: computers and machines and vehicles. I wanted human characters and robot characters and domestic animal characters. I wanted her to experience cities and towns and rural areas. To contrast the wilderness of the first book, I wanted Roz to now experience as much of the civilized world as possible. Where does she go after being refurbished?.If her body is repaired will her computer brain be affected?.What happens when Roz arrives at the robot factory?.I began by simply asking myself questions: And I picked up from there as I turned my attention to The Wild Robot Escapes. At the end of The Wild Robot, Roz is badly damaged, and she’s taken away from the island, back to the robot factory where she was made.

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown