EAN: 9781913029937

PARALLEL MINDS - LAURA TRIPALDI KARTONIERT (TB)

Insights into the intelligence throughout the natural and technical environment  in the fabric
of our devices and dwellings  in our clothes  and under our skin. Is there a way to understand
the materials that surround us not as passive objects  but as other intelligences interacting
with our own? In Parallel Minds  expert in materials science and nanotechnology Laura Tripaldi
delivers not only detailed insights into the properties and emergent behaviors of matter as
revealed by state-of-the-art chemistry  synthetic biology  and nanotech  but also a rich
philosophical reflection that crosses the frontier between nature and culture  where the most
cutting-edge scientific syntheses resonate with ancient myth. The result is a technomaterial
bestiary full of unexpected encounters with strange minds-from cobwebs to kevlar and carbon
fibre  from centaurs to amoebas to arachnids  from polycephalic slime to resonating plasmons 
from viruses to golems. Parallel Minds reveals the intelligence at large throughout the natural
and technical environment  in the fabric of our devices and dwellings  in our clothes  and even
under our skin. Full of lateral ideas and unexpected images  Tripaldi's book imbues the study
and synthesis of materials with a new urgency. For not only do the materials that surround us
participate actively in the construction of the world in which we live  but harnessing their
ability to interact intelligently with their environment could be the key to the future of our
species.

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