Viruses in All Dimensions: How an Information Code Controls Viruses, Software and Microorganisms
Ball, Rafael
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2023-03-31
- 售價: $1,720
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,634
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 156
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3658388250
- ISBN-13: 9783658388256
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商品描述
Microorganisms, viruses, and computer programs encode all the information necessary to reproduce and spread themselves. Yet these mechanisms are amazingly similar in the animate world, in the world of viruses, and even in the world of technical systems. The book shows how great the parallels are between these various animate and inanimate replicating systems and what they are based on.
The excursion also leads into the fascinating world of genetics, to the question of what defines life and into the programming of software that multiplies itself independently. Finally, the question is derived whether and to what extent such self-replicating technical systems can become as dangerous as infectious viruses in triggering pandemics, such as the Corona pandemic in 2020.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
微生物、病毒和電腦程式都編碼了繁殖和傳播所需的所有資訊。然而，這些機制在有機世界、病毒世界甚至技術系統世界中都驚人地相似。本書展示了這些不同的有機和無機複製系統之間的相似之處以及它們的基礎。
這次旅程還將帶領讀者進入迷人的遺傳學世界，探討生命的定義以及獨立複製軟體的程式設計。最後，書中提出了一個問題：這種自我複製的技術系統是否能像傳染性病毒一樣危險，觸發像2020年冠狀病毒大流行這樣的全球疫情。
作者簡介
The author Rafael Ball holds a PhD in biology, is a historian of science and a librarian. He is director of the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich and lecturer in library science and management at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden. For many years he has been concerned with questions of information theory, science communication and the effects of digitisation on science and society in the present and the future. He is the author of numerous relevant publications, editor of information science journals and speaker at meetings and conferences.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
作者Rafael Ball擁有生物學博士學位，是一位科學史學家和圖書館員。他是ETH-Bibliothek Zurich的主任，也是Graubünden應用科學大學圖書館科學和管理的講師。多年來，他一直關注信息理論、科學傳播以及數字化對當今和未來科學和社會的影響。他是眾多相關出版物的作者，也是信息科學期刊的編輯和會議演講者。
