#349 Bioengineering: The Next Tech Revolution: Susan Hockfield
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Bioengineering: The Next Tech Revolution: Susan Hockfield
Inside Science & Technology Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Series, I'm Paul Vogelzang and this is episode #349.
As part of our Smithsonian Associates Inside Science & Technology series, we are joined today by author, scientist, and former president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Susan Hockfield. Dr. Hockfield will be appearing at the Smithsonian Associates, May 6, 2019, and her presentation is entitled, Bioengineering: The Next Technology Revolution.
Thanks to Dr. Susan Hockfield at the Smithsonian Associates program, presenting: Bioengineering: The Next Technology Revolution., May 6, 2019. at the Ripley Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Hockfield's new book, The Age of Living Machines (W.W. Norton) is available for sale and signing. More details available on our web site. Thanks to the Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show, and thanks to you our wonderful Not Old Better Show audience. Remember, Talk About Better. The Not Old Better Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates Inside Science series. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Paul Vogel-Zang and this is episode number 349. As part of our Spesonian Associates Inside Science and Technology Series. |
| 0:23.6 | We are joined today by author, scientist, |
| 0:26.1 | and former president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, |
| 0:29.8 | Dr. Susan Hawkfield. |
| 0:31.4 | Dr. Hawkfield will be appearing at the Smithsonian Associates program, May 6th, 2019, |
| 0:37.0 | and her presentation is entitled |
| 0:39.0 | Bioengineering The Next Technology Revolution. the next technology revolution. |
| 0:50.0 | Small aside regarding the next technology revolution specifically about music, we are listening |
| 0:56.0 | to an artificial intelligence piece of music from composer Andrew Wong. |
| 1:01.0 | Andrew makes a lot of great music in a recent collaboration with the Google team |
| 1:05.1 | known as Magenta whose focused is how to create art and music with machine |
| 1:10.3 | learning yielded this great piece. It's really cool stuff. I think it just |
| 1:14.5 | works here. |
| 1:17.0 | Dr. Susan Hawkfield, our guest today, will talk about being on the cusp of a new convergence with discoveries in biology coming |
| 1:25.8 | together with engineering to produce another array of almost inconceivable technologies. |
| 1:31.6 | These next generation products have the potential to be every bit as |
| 1:36.1 | revolutionary as the 20th century's digital wonders. |
| 1:40.1 | Virus-built batteries, protein-based water filters, cancer detecting |
| 1:45.1 | nanoparticles, mind-reading bionic limbs, and computer-engineered crops to name |
| 1:50.9 | a few and we'll hear about Dr. |
| 1:53.5 | Hockfield's own insatiable desire to see how things work and how she's put that |
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