The genesis machine : our quest to rewrite life in the age of synthetic biology / Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781541797918
- ISBN: 1541797914
- Physical Description: x, 352 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part One : Origin -- Saying No to Bad Genes : The Birth of the Genesis Machine -- A Race to the Starting Line -- The Bricks of Life -- God, a Church, and a (Mostly) Woolly Mammoth -- Part Two : The Bioeconomy -- The Biological Age -- Nine Risks -- The Story of Golden Rice -- Part Three: Futures -- Exploring the Recently Plausible -- Scenario One : Creating Your Child with Wellspring -- Scenario Two : What Happened When We Canceled Aging -- Scenario Three : Akira Gold's "Where to Eat" -- Scenario Four : The Underground -- Scenario Five : The Memo -- Part Four : The Way Forward -- A New Beginning -- Epilogue. |
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Author Notes
The Genesis Machine : Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Amy Webb is the founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that advises CEOs of the world's most-admired companies, three-star admirals and generals, and the senior leadership of central banks and intergovernmental organizations. She is a professor of strategic foresight at New York University's Stern School of Business and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Said 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. Amy was named by Forbes as "one of the five women changing the world" and was honored as one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2020. Amy is 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 . She resides in Baltimore, MD. Andrew Hessel , a pioneer and an expert in the field of synthetic biology, is the president of Humane Genomics, an early-stage company developing synthetic viruses for canine and human oncology. He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Center of Excellence for Engineering Biology and the Genome Project, the international scientific effort to engineer large genomes, including the human genome. He is a former distinguished research scientist at Autodesk Life Sciences.