I see organics both as the old ways, and as the way ahead.
Prior to the introduction of petrochemicals-based fertilisers/herbicides/pesticides, more natural, plant or animal based products were used.
Companion planting, and feeding plants indirectly, by feeding and boosting the growing medium in environmentally friendly ways, are, to my mind, the only long-terms sustainable methods, as using petro-chemicals seems to lead inexorably to the breakdown of the natural relationship between plant and soil, requiring ever-increasing rates of petro-chemical fertilisation and pest-control as a result.
This isn't just a nostalgic hankering for the old ways, nearly all of us will be too young to remember, it's, as I said at the start of the post, "the way ahead".
The use of sharp-end bio-technology to deliver answers to organic problems, in order to keep yields high, to keep pest free, and to grow high brics, nutrionally superior food, that petro-chemicals gardeners see, and perhaps, just a little bit, envy.
One thing I would mention, especially to Chuck and Meowmie, is that UK organics technology is at least a decade behind the US, so any recent innovations are probably unknown here.