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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Authored by Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel
Narrated by Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, Landon Woodson, Amanda Dolan
0:00 Intro
0:03 Copyright
1:09 Introduction: Should We Edit Life?
11:09 Outro
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
What if the miracle that created mRNA vaccines is less a once-in-lifetime event and more the harbinger of the emerging age of synthetic biology? This fusion of biology and computers has a singular goal: to gain access to cells in order to write new––and possibly better––biological code.
Synthetic biology promises to reveal how life is created and how it can be re-created, enabling scientists to rewrite the rules of our reality. It could help us, for example, heal without prescription medications, grow meat without harvesting animals, or confront our looming climate catastrophe. Synthetic biology will determine the ways in which we conceive future generations and how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. Soon, we will program living, biological structures as though they were tiny computers.
But who should decide how to engineer living organisms? Whether engineered organisms should be planted, farmed, and released into the wild? Should there be limits to human enhancements? Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel’s riveting examination of synthetic biology and the bioeconomy provide the background for thinking through the upcoming risks and moral dilemmas posed by redesigning life, as well as the vast opportunities waiting for us on the horizon.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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 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. 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…
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published on: February 15, 2022
ISBN: 9781549127892
Duration: 10 hr, 6 min
Genres: Science / Ethics, Science / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Science / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, Technology & Engineering / Biomedical
