Rafael Ball: Viruses in all Dimensions

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Cover: 9783658388256 | Viruses in all Dimensions | Rafael Ball | Taschenbuch | Paperback

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Zusammenfassung

Raises the question What is life where does the machine end and where does the living being begin?

The coding of information is amazingly similar in living beings, viruses and computer viruses

Reveals similarity of coding in living organisms, viruses and computer viruses

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Viruses, microorganisms and molecular genetics.- What is life?.-Basic concepts of molecular genetics.- Viruses and early genetics.- Algorithms and self-replicating computer programs.- What is information?.- Coding of information in technology and biology.- Coevolution of life and technology.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Informatik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	164
Inhalt:	viii 156 S. 2 s/w Illustr. 14 farbige Illustr. 156 p. 16 illus. 14 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783658388256
ISBN-10:	3658388250
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ball, Rafael
Auflage:	1st ed. 2023
Hersteller:	Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
Maße:	203 x 127 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Rafael Ball
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.03.2023
Gewicht:	0,184 kg

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