Biohacking: The next great software revolution
When the next great software revolution is life itself, you will never look at yourself the same way again. If the lines between humans and machines are blurring, how digital do we want to become? Dive into a terrifying and uplifting world, where science fiction is becoming reality. Discover how biohacking is changing our relationship with technology, evolution and death, and why our products will soon be grown.
Dr. Elsa Sotiriadis is a synthetic biologist, futurist and science fiction writer (Elsa Solaris) interested in fixing the world with the science of biohacking. As a venture capital investor, she helped invest in, build and launch 25 pioneering biotech startups and during her Ph.D. at Imperial College London, she worked on making DNA nanorobots to kill cancer cells. She has been featured by Silicon Republic as one of 15 women to follow in biotech, worked with the BBC on an eco-fiction show and her debut novelette Replicon won an honorable mention at the Writers of the Future competition in Hollywood, L.A. Today, she’s a ‘Bio-Futurist’, travels the world as a keynote speaker and helped an iconic global tech company to innovate with digital biology. Psst – she’s a cyborg and can tweet just by hand swipe. |