RT Journal
A1 Root-Bernstein R
T1 Biology is technology: The promise, peril, and new business of engineering life
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2010
FD October 27
VO 304
IS 16
SP 1845
OP 1846
DO 10.1001/jama.2010.1552
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.1552
AB 
Biology Is Technology is a fascinating, thought-provoking, infuriating, overstated, often contradictory book by Robert Carlson, one of the major proponents and advocates of engineering biological organisms. Carlson aims to create new biologically based technologies as pervasive and economically important as modern electronics and energy technologies. Whether readers think that hacking biological systems to harness them to personal whims is a great idea or the most frightening thing ever proposed, this book is worth reading, pondering, and discussing.