Walter Isaacson

The #1 New York Times bestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it." --The New Yorker "Vigorous, insightful." --The Washington Post "A masterpiece." --San Francisco Chronicle "Luminous." --The Daily Beast He was history's most creative …

The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of 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 …

Il computer e Internet sono innovazioni fondamentali della nostra epoca, eppure pochi conoscono come sono nati e i nomi dei loro inventori. Contrariamente a ciò che si crede, questi strumenti ormai indispensabili nella nostra vita quotidiana non sono stati ideati in soffitte e garage da scienziati solitari e un po' …