
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
Susan Hockfield
Book Bioengineering
Blending biology and engineering, researchers seek to tackle our biggest existential threats
Two to three million years after the first stone flakes were assembled into a rudimentary tool kit by a hominid, Homo sapiens stumbled across a new suite of tools that would fundamentally affect humankind. Initially known as “corpuscles” and then as “electrons,” the technology had its basis in the particles carrying “negative electricity” discovered in…