Walter Isaacson

Visionääri vai arvaamaton öykkäri? Tutustu tästä lukunäytteeseen ”Niille, joita olen loukannut, haluan sanoa vain, että minä keksin uudestaan sähköauton ja aion lähettää ihmisiä avaruusaluksella Marsiin. Luulitteko, että olisin vain tavallinen rento tyyppi?” Kaikilla on mielipide Elon Muskista, mutta mikä hän on miehiään? Sen paljastaa palkitun tietokirjailijan Walter Isaacsonin kattava elämäkerta Muskista, yhdestä aikamme merkittävimmästä ihmisestä. Hänen perustamansa sähköautoyhtiö Tesla mullisti autoilun, SpaceX avaruusmatkailun, ja lukuisilla lennokkailla innovaatioillaan, esimerkiksi aivoihin asennettavalla mikrosirulla, Musk aikoo mullistaa ihmiselämän sellaisena kuin sen tunnemme. Musk varttui rikkinäisessä kodissa Etelä-Afrikassa, muutti 17-vuotiaana Kanadaan, teki miljoonia PayPalilla ja perusti lopulta Teslan. Viime ajat Musk on pysynyt otsikoissa Twitterin uutena, äkkivääränä omistajana. Elämäkerturi Isaacson on seurannut Muskia kahden vuoden ajan ja päässyt niin ystävien kuin vihamiesten puheille. Tuloksena on vauhdikas ja syvällinen henkilökuva, joka paljastaa mikä Muskia ajaa eteenpäin ja mikä on hänen menestyksensä salaisuus. Walter Isaacson (s. 1952) on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja journalisti, joka on kirjoittanut suositut elämäkerrat muun muassa Steve Jobsista, Albert Einsteinista ja Leonardo da Vincistä. Pitkän uransa aikana hän on työskennellyt muun muassa CNN-mediayhtiön toimitusjohtajana ja Time-lehden vastaavana päätoimittajana.

Dette er historien om verdens mest kontroversielle innovatør – en visjonær som bryter alle regler og har ledet verden inn i en æra med el-biler, privat romfart og kunstig intelligens. Den avslutter med oppkjøpet av Twitter og hvordan han etablerte den maktbasen som la grunnlaget for veien videre til Det hvite hus. Da Elon Musk vokste opp i Sør-Afrika, ble han ofte banket opp. En dag kom en gjeng og dyttet ham ned en murtrapp før de banket ham opp så kraftig at han ble liggende på sykehuset i en uke. Men de fysiske skadene var små sammenlignet med de følelsesmessige skadene han ble påført av faren, en ustabil og karismatisk ingeniør med store vyer. Farens innvirkning på psyken hans vedvarte. Han utviklet seg til en tøff, men sårbar gutte-mann, som kunne ha brå Jekyll-og-Hyde-humørsvingninger, hadde en ekstremt høy toleranse for risiko, et sug etter drama, en episk oppfatning av å ha en oppgave i livet, og en manisk intensitet som var kynisk og til tider destruktiv. På begynnelsen av 2022 – etter et år der SpaceX gjennomførte trettien rakettoppskytinger, Tesla solgte en million biler og Elon selv ble det rikeste mennesket i verden – uttalte han seg angrende om sin hang til å skape dramatikk. «Jeg må legge om måten jeg tenker på, bort fra å være i krisemodus», sa han, «slik jeg har vært i rundt fjorten år nå, eller etter manges mening gjennom det meste av livet.» Det var en vemodig kommentar, ikke et nyttårsforsett. Samtidig som han kom med dette løftet, kjøpte han i all hemmelighet opp aksjer fra Twitter, verdens ypperste lekeplass. Nå hadde han sjansen til å eie lekeplassen selv. I to år lot Musk forfatteren Isaacson fotfølge ham. Han deltok på møter og inspiserte fabrikkene sammen med ham. I tillegg brukte han timevis på å intervjue Musk selv, familien hans, venner, kolleger og motstandere. Resultatet er denne avslørende historien fra innsiden, full av fortellinger om triumfer og kaos som tar opp spørsmålet: Er demonene som driver Musk, også det som kreves for å drive frem innovasjon og fremskritt?

Walter Isaacson’s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers! When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson’s account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules—an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat—the coronavirus—and you have just been given a front row seat to that race.

För första gången i mänsklighetens historia kan vi nu gå in i våra gener och ändra i deras sammansättning. För sin upptäckt av gensaxen CRISPR belönades biokemiforskaren Jennifer Doudna med Nobelpriset. Genredigeringen innebär stora möjligheter för oss att kunna bota svåra sjukdomar, bekämpa pandemier och få friskare barn. Men samtidigt måste vi sätta gränser för hur långt vi kan gå med denna revolutionerande teknik. Hamnar tekniken i fel händer och utnyttjas för tvivelaktiga syften kan det få förödande konsekvenser för oss alla. I Livets kod berättar den internationellt bästsäljande biografen Walter Isaacson om hur vårt liv förändras i grunden genom tillgången till denna revolutionerande teknik – och om den kvinna som knäckte koden.

Uolter Ajzekson, avtor znamenitoj biografii Stivena Dzhobsa, napisal knigu ob odnom iz samykh izvestnykh uchenykh XX veka, Alberte Ejnshtejne. On ne tolko podrobno i dostupno izlozhil sut nauchnykh kontseptsij i otkrytij avtora teorii otnositelnosti, no i uvlekatelno rasskazal ob Ejnshtejne-cheloveke. V knige privoditsja mnozhestvo dokumentalnykh materialov - pisma, vospominanija, dnevnikovye zapisi. Pered nami vstaet obraz udivitelno talantlivogo cheloveka, mechtatelja i buntarja, gumanista i myslitelja. Ejnshtejn predstaet pered nami chelovekom iz ploti i krovi - so vsemi dostoinstvami i nedostatkami. Eto sereznaja rabota, posvjaschennaja odnoj iz samykh interesnykh figur v istorii nauki. The Boston Globe Primer velikolepnoj literatury o nauke i uvlekatelnejshee chtenie. Eto odna iz velichajshikh istorij pro sovremennuju nauku. The Guardian Naibolee polnaja biografija Ejnshtejna dlja shirokogo chitatelja... Ajzekson umelo spletaet vse linii v tselnoe povestvovanie. Newsweek Potrjasajuschee udovolstvie... Eto - teplyj, glubokij, nezhnyj portret, pokazyvajuschij Ejnshtejna chelovechnym i neobychajno ocharovatelnym po svoej suti... Udivitelno zakonchennyj obraz vechno porazhajuschej lichnosti Ejnshtejna. Dzhenet Maslin, Nju-Jork Tajms Eta kniga spravljaetsja so slozhnoj zadachej objasnit nauku i vyjavit kharakter cheloveka. Silvester Dzhejms Gejts Dzh, Dzhon S. Toll professor fiziki, universitet Merilenda Perevodchik: Kaganova Inna, Lisovskaja T. Redaktor: Gornostaeva Varvara

Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver recounts how she took on the greed and corrupt politics of the US space program, inciting the expansion of space exploration into the private sector and paving the way for “space pirates” like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk. When she rose to second-in-command at NASA, Lori Garver was determined to do more than just break a glass ceiling. She set out to break the self-interested system of government-controlled space exploration run by Congress, the aerospace industry, entrenched bureaucrats, and hero-astronauts trying to protect their own profits and mythology. In Space Pirates, Garver recounts her fight for change from inside the space agency and how it put her in the crosshairs of established interests who viewed her as a threat to the trillion-dollar government contracting system that has centralized power in the United States since World War II. Garver’s hard-won victories paved the way for a new era of transcendental change at NASA in collaboration with her “space pirates”— Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson. Working to unleash the potential of these visionaries, Garver pried spaceflight from the tight grip and the aerospace/military industrial complex and helped create a more peaceful, inclusive, and meaningful space age. Including previously unpublished conversations and insights on the epic battles that have transitioned space access to private interests for a fraction of the cost of previous NASA programs, Space Pirates offers a blueprint for how to drive productive and meaningful government change.

A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn't become scientists, she decided she would. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book's author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be And what about preventing depression? Hmmm... Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an "enthralling detective story" (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules --an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat--the coronavirus--and you have just been given a front row seat to that war.

Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules--an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat--the coronavirus--and you have just been given a front row seat to that race.

Ezhegodnye poslanija aktsioneram, teksty samykh pronzitelnykh vystuplenij i intervju Dzheffa Bezosa, sobrannye v knigu genialnym biografom Uolterom Ajzeksonom. Eta kniga predostavljaet kazhdomu, kto ee prochtet, unikalnuju vozmozhnost prosledit evoljutsiju idej samogo bogatogo cheloveka na planete, uznat printsipy uspekha i filosofiju, kotorymi rukovodstvovalsja Dzheff Bezos pri sozdanii i upravlenii Amazon i Blue Origin. Invent and Wander - master-klass po strategii i realizatsii biznesa, pereosmyslenie segodnjashnikh - i, chto bolee vazhno, zavtrashnikh problem, i prizyv nikogda ne ostanavlivajas na dostignutom. Chto na samom dele oznachaet byt oderzhimym klientami, kakov sekretnyj ingredient innovatsij, chemu nas nauchila pandemija Covid-19 - kniga okhvatyvaet shirokij krug tem v sfere biznesa i politiki. Uznajte, chto privelo k uspekhu odnogo iz samykh vazhnykh novatorov nashego vremeni. Perevodchik: Shalaeva D. A.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ble født 15. april 1452 i landsbyen Vinci utenfor Firenze og var en av de største og mest mangesidige begavelser europeisk kultur har fostret. Han var blant annet maler, billedhogger, musiker, dikter, arkitekt, ingeniør, oppfinner og vitenskapsmann. Da Vinci døde i Frankrike 2. mai 1519. Walter Isaacson er en av verdens fremste sakprosaforfattere, og hans bestselgende biografi om Leonardo da Vinci omtales som et mesterverk av flere anmeldere – og er regnet for å være det ypperste som er skrevet om renessansemennesket fra Vinci. Biografien er basert på tusenvis av sider fra Leonardo da Vincis forbløffende (og speilvendte) notatbøker og på nye funn om hans liv, studier og kunst. Isaacson bringer oss nærmere Leonardo i en fortelling som kaster nytt lys over mennesket, kunstneren, vitenskapsmannen og oppfinneren. Leonardo da Vinci var et «uekte» barn, han var homoseksuell, vegetarianer, venstrehendt, rastløs og opprørsk. Man kan si at han var forut for sin tid, både i liv og gjerning. Blant hans mange etterlatte tegninger og oppfinnelser var helikopteret, stridsvognen, fallskjermen, optikken, kulelageret og mye annet. Den omfangsrike boken inneholder et hundretalls illustrasjoner, blant annet hele Leonardo da Vincis maleriproduksjon og et stort antall tegninger og skisser, foruten kart og bilder fra hans samtid.

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn't become scientists, she decided she would. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book's author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be And what about preventing depression? Hmmm... Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an "enthralling detective story" (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.