The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology - Softcover

Webb, Amy; Hessel, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1541797922 ISBN 13: 9781541797925

Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2023

Synopsis

A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers.

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About the Author

Amy Webb advises CEOs of the world's most-admired companies, three-star admirals and generals, and the senior leadership of central banks and intergovernmental organizations on the future of technology and science. A quantitative futurist, Amy is the CEO of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and management consulting firm. She is a professor of strategic foresight at New York University's Stern School of Business and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Säid School of Business. She was elected a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and serves as a Steward and Steering Committee member of the World Economic Forum. She was also a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology and international diplomacy. Amy was named by Forbes as "one of the five women changing the world," honoured as one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2020 and is ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the most influential business minds in the world. Amy is award-winning author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity and The Signals are Talking: Why Today's Fringe is Tomorrow's Mainstream.

Edition details

• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1541797922
• ISBN 13: 9781541797925
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368