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Denise Caruso

In my former professional incarnation, I was a technology journalist and analyst. I spent nearly 20 years chronicling the digital age, from the beginning of the personal computer revolution to the convergence of computing, telecommunications and media, including five years as the Technology columnist for The New York Times.Today, I'm running The Hybrid Vigor Institute, a not-for-profit research and consulting practice, and I'm back at The New York Times -- writing the Re:framing column for the Sunday Business section. For the past few years, I've been mostly interested in how to address the risks of innovations in science and technology. More recently, I've been working up some new approaches to the risks of global infectious disease. But overall, I'd say the unifying theme for me over the past couple of decades is that I am particularly attracted to the kinds of issues that present themselves at the intersection of technology, commerce and culture.

Web Site: hybridvigor.org
  San Francisco, California
  United States

Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet
Recipient of a 2007 IPPY Silver Medal, INTERVENTION challenges two of the most sacred tenets of modern society, innovation and technology, from the perspective of the unique risks they present. Using genetic engineering as its model, it paints a vivid picture of the scientific uncertainties that biotech risk evaluations dismiss or ignore, and lays bare the power and money conflicts between academia, industry and regulators that have sped these risky innovations to the market. Intervention champions an alternative method for assessing the risks of technology, developed by the world's top risk experts, that can eliminate such conflicts, help regain public trust in science and government, and drive research and development toward more useful, safer products.

"Perhaps the most balanced and readable look yet at assessing the risks of genetic engineering." Michael Rogers, MSNBC.com

"I learned more about biotechnology from this book than any other I've read ..." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging.com


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