Susan Hockfield.
The Age of Living Machines: how biology will build the next technology revolution.
WW Norton. 2019
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 convergence—of biology and engineering—promises
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.