Susan Hockfield

The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Entertaining and prescient...Hockfield demonstrates how nature's molecular riches may be leveraged to provide potential solutions to some of humanity's existential challenges." Adrian Woolfson, Science

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies that radically reshaped the world: radios, televisions, aircraft, computers, and a host of still-evolving digital tools. Today, a new technological convergenceof biology and engineeringpromises to create the tools necessary to tackle the threats we now face, including climate change, drought, famine, and disease

World-renowned neuroscientist and academic leader Susan Hockfield describes the most exciting new developments and the scientists and engineers who helped to create them. Virus-built batteries. Cancer-detecting nanoparticles. Computer-engineered crops. Together, they highlight the promise of the technology revolution of the twenty-first century to overcome some of the greatest humanitarian, medical, and environmental challenges of our time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393634754
• Artikelnr.: 59592849

Autorenporträt

Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., president emerita and professor of neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was the first woman and first life scientist to lead MIT. She is a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.