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Decoding the World

By: Po Bronson, Arvind Gupta
Narrated by: Po Bronson, Arvind Gupta
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Find out where our world is headed with this dazzling firsthand account of inventing the future from the number one New York Times best-selling author of What Should I Do with My Life? and the founder of science accelerator IndieBio.

Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio.

Arvind Gupta created IndieBio as a laboratory for early biotech start-ups trying to solve major world problems. Glaciers melting. Dying bees. Infertility. Cancer. Ocean plastic. Pandemics.

Arvind is the fearless one, a radical experimentalist. Po is the studious detective, patiently synthesizing clues others have missed. Their styles mix and create a quadratic speedup of creativity. Yin and Yang crystallized.

As they travel around the world, finding scientists to join their cause, the authors bring their firsthand experience to the great mysteries that haunt our future. Natural resource depletion. Job-taking robots. China's global influence.

Arvind feels he needs to leave IndieBio to help start-ups do more than just get started. But as his departure draws near, he struggles to leave the sanctum he created. While Po has to prove he can keep the "indie" in IndieBio after Arvind is gone.

After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same.

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©2020 Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta (P)2020 Twelve
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"These two headed off to explore knowledge, invention, art, superstition, maybe even salvation and have emerged with what looks like the planet's first atlas of apocalypse avoidance." (Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs)

"YES! This is it. The Big Book of Answers you've been looking for. It's kind and funny. It explores and explains. Think of it as a guide book to the human animal for the 21st century." (Noah Hawley, creator of Fargo)

"Like being a fly on the wall of the world's most interesting dinner party. Spectral, scary, stupefying, and yet strangely optimistic, DECODING THE WORLD is a journey through the weirdness and wondrousness of the natural world, and our precarious place within it. Required reading for restless times." (James Nestor, New York Times best-selling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art)

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Great ideas

As somebody in biotech myself, I had to listen to this in doses otherwise I would get too amped up. My favorite was the philosophical side in the first third of the book - very cool takes on the future of technology and society

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Enlightening and exciting

Enlightening and exciting of what is being researched and funded right now. Inspires me to learn more.

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interesting overview of 2020 science.

Entertaining and educational scientific taste testing. Now I have a few more topics I would like to research.

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Incredible

This book is relevant for anyone alive in 2020. There is so much wisdom to be shared In this book. Thank you for your life’s work!

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