The Future of Species: How AI Will Reinvent the Building Blocks of Life

'The book we need right now ... Essential reading' Professor Tom Ellis, Imperial College London'Raises some of the most challenging philosophical and ethical issues that humankind has ever had to address' Sunday Times'A fascinating read ...I throroughly recommend for all audiences' Professor Mumtaz Patel, President of the Royal College of PhysiciansImagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them.Where smartphones are living, clothing has opinions, and all human knowledge fits into a speck of DNA.A world where disease is a thing of the past, and the human lifespan is dramatically extended. To achieve this, says Adrian Woolfson - founder of the genome writing company Genyro - we must transform biology into a predictive, programmable engineering material.That means decoding the generative grammar of DNA: the language of life itself.It may then be possible to author genomes - and, if we choose, even rewrite our own.We are at the cusp of a technological revolution, driven by th