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.
"[A] road map for navigating [synthetic biology's] opportunities
and perils."--The New Yorker
"[A] fascinating survey of the present and future of
biotechnology."--Nature
"The book is a brilliant narrative of the future of human life.
Webb and Hessel explain the complex matter in such a way that
experts and laypeople alike can follow, whose biology lessons were
a while ago."--Handelsblatt
"The Genesis Machine is a brilliant pairing of two visionaries who
offer us a comprehensive take on making a better world through
biology."--Jane Metcalfe, cofounder of Wired and CEO of
NEO.LIFE
"The Genesis Machine is a tour de force! Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel
masterfully reveal the emerging network of forces--people, labs,
computer systems, government agencies, and businesses--that will
drive humanity's next great transformation. Their fascinating (and
frightening) conclusions--that the human ecosystem can actually
become programmed--will touch every facet of our lives in the
future. This brilliant work is an absolute must-read for national
security professionals and defense planners who need to understand
the complex dynamics at play in the future competition for
bio-hegemony."--Dr. Jake Sotiriadis, chief futurist, United States
Air Force
"The Genesis Machine is a very readable story about how the DNA
world is shifting from reading the genetic code to writing and
editing it. Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel then take the reader on a
journey of possible world changing events that could result from
this new technology."--J. Craig Venter, PhD, author of Life at the
Speed of Life: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital and CEO
of JCVI
"The Genesis Machine is fantastic, explaining how genetic code is
the alphabet in which much of the future will be written. Amy Webb
and Andrew Hessel have taken the very complicated subject of
synthetic biology and made it understandable with sharp prose and
sharp analysis that cut through mysteries of science and
twenty-first-century humanism."--Alec Ross, author of The
Industries of the Future and The Raging 2020s
"Are latest innovations in synthetic biology simply a miracle that
ends a crisis or a breakthrough to an entirely new way of living?
That's the question futurist Amy Webb and microbiologist Andrew
Hessel reveal for us with this fascinating book. The history of the
world is a history of unintended consequences, for better and for
worse, and Webb and Hessel capture the coming fusion of tech and
biology in vivid detail."--Ian Bremmer, author of Collision
Course
"This spectacular and highly accessiblebook clearly and
thoughtfully examines the most important revolution of our
lives--and of life itself. Understanding how we and future
generations will use the tools of synthetic biology to transform
the worlds inside and around us is essential to being an informed
and empowered person and citizen in the twenty-first century. The
Genesis Machine is a guide to exactly that and a must-read
book."--Jamie Metzl, member of WHO expert committee on human genome
editing and author of Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the
Future of Humanity
"We can now program biological systems like we program computers,
with artificial intelligence and machine learning accelerating the
speed of innovation and applications of synthetic biology. In an
accessible and fascinating narrative, The Genesis Machine lays out
a roadmap for this interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology
that is forever reshaping life as we know it."--Rana el Kaliouby,
author of Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity
by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology and deputy CEO,
Smart Eye
"You may not realize it yet, but your life--and all of life
itself--is about to change. From programmable genes to designer
medicines, synthetic biology is going to transform everything. The
Genesis Machine is a surprisingly intimate, incisive, and readable
guide to the opportunities, risks, and moral dilemmas of the brave
new world ahead."--Steven Strogatz, Cornell University, author of
Infinite Powers
"[D]eeply researched but accessible prose... A wrinkle on the near
future that many readers will not have pondered--and
should."--Kirkus
"[A] thought-provoking introduction to synthetic biology...[a]
breathtaking science, but it is also scary. Who's in charge, and
where are the brakes?"--Booklist
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