Living Tech: The Convergence of Biology and Innovation

Living Tech: The Convergence of Biology and Innovation starts from a simple premise: we're standing at the edge of the next great technological era, one where the line between silicon and cell disappears entirely.

Drawing on conversations with five leading scientists and technologists, this book reveals why biology isn't just another industry to disrupt with AI or software, but "the largest dataset that has ever existed," refined over four billion years of evolution and now becoming readable, programmable, and buildable with tools that get exponentially cheaper every year.

From AlphaFold cracking the protein-folding problem in milliseconds to cyborg cockroaches built for disaster rescue, from slime mold that outsmarts subway engineers to DNA that could one day store more data than entire server farms, this book maps a future where biotech reshapes not just medicine but manufacturing, finance, architecture, and leadership itself. It's a rare briefing that's as intellectually rigorous as it is genuinely thrilling: part field guide, part manifesto, and part reminder that the biggest breakthroughs of the next decade may come from paying closer attention to the 4-billion-year-old innovation engine we've been standing next to all along.