Decoding the world : How the genetic era will change the world By Po Bronson & Arvind Gupta.

By:

Bronson, Po & Gupta, Arvind

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Wildfire, 2020.Edition: 1st EdDescription: i-xvii+327pISBN:

9781472278609

Subject(s):

Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects

DDC classification:

660.65 BRO-D

Contents:

First Corono virus Death in U.S. and new cases detected as testing expends Worlds Supermarket Returns as Epidemic Eases in China Silicon Valley's New Obsession 33.48 Tons of dead fish collected in Pinellas county as red tide bloom lingers Tide Bloom Lingers ABC ACTION NEWS Mail Order CRISPR Kits Allow Absolutely Anyone to Hack The Mystery of Vanishing Honeybees Is Still What Colors Are This Dress? BUZZFEED 10 James Bond Villians, Ranked by How Evil Their Plans were What are the 10most watched food TV Shows? Meet the Mafias Making Buckets of Cash from Illegal Sand What's your Purpose? Finding a sense of meaning in life is linked to health Meet the Pope's astronomer, who says He'd Baptize and Alien If given the chance There is an absolutely Gigantic Rouge Planet wandering our galactic Neighborhood

Summary: In Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta-two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley-take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter is prefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat. Glaciers melting. Bronson and Gupta then decipher what's really going on behind these headlines, and why. What they offer is first-hand experience in funding technologies to solve these problems, most of which involve genetic engineering. But what the authors then do with that premise is always surprising and unexpected. In one paragraph they are ripping it down to the bare bones physics or chemistry, and in the very next paragraph invoking history, philosophy, or psychology-while using literary devices borrowed from the surrealists, along with storylines from popular movies. The narrative holds a tightrope suspense, as we wonder what they'll do next, or what brazen thing they'll say. Decoding the World is the kind of book you get when you give two guys $40 million, a world full of messy big problems, a genetics laboratory to play in, and a set of Borges' collected works. After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same

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First Corono virus Death in U.S. and new cases detected as testing expends
Worlds Supermarket Returns as Epidemic Eases in China
Silicon Valley's New Obsession
33.48 Tons of dead fish collected in Pinellas county as red tide bloom lingers
Tide Bloom Lingers ABC ACTION NEWS
Mail Order CRISPR Kits Allow Absolutely Anyone to Hack
The Mystery of Vanishing Honeybees Is Still
What Colors Are This Dress? BUZZFEED
10 James Bond Villians, Ranked by How Evil Their Plans were
What are the 10most watched food TV Shows?
Meet the Mafias Making Buckets of Cash from Illegal Sand
What's your Purpose? Finding a sense of meaning in life is linked to health
Meet the Pope's astronomer, who says He'd Baptize and Alien If given the chance
There is an absolutely Gigantic Rouge Planet wandering our galactic Neighborhood

In Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta-two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley-take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter is prefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat. Glaciers melting. Bronson and Gupta then decipher what's really going on behind these headlines, and why. What they offer is first-hand experience in funding technologies to solve these problems, most of which involve genetic engineering. But what the authors then do with that premise is always surprising and unexpected. In one paragraph they are ripping it down to the bare bones physics or chemistry, and in the very next paragraph invoking history, philosophy, or psychology-while using literary devices borrowed from the surrealists, along with storylines from popular movies. The narrative holds a tightrope suspense, as we wonder what they'll do next, or what brazen thing they'll say. Decoding the World is the kind of book you get when you give two guys $40 million, a world full of messy big problems, a genetics laboratory to play in, and a set of Borges' collected works. After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same

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