Age of Living Machines (eBook)

How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

Susan Hockfield (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
256 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-63475-4 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Entertaining and prescientHockfield demonstrates how natures molecular riches may be leveraged to provide potential solutions to some of humanitys existential challenges."e; Adrian Woolfson, ScienceA 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 diseaseWorld-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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Medizintechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: angela belcher • aquaporin • batteries • biomemetic • Biomimicry • bionic • Biotechnology • Cancer • Collaboration • convergence • Development • Engineering • Innovation • Interdisciplinary • Medical • MIT • Nano medicine • nanotechnology • Physics • prosthetics • Science • Technology
• ISBN-10: 0-393-63475-2 / 0393634752
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-63475-4 / 9780393634754