What We Are Reading Today: Virtual You

What We Are Reading Today: Virtual You
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Updated 21 July 2024

What We Are Reading Today: Virtual You

What We Are Reading Today: Virtual You

Authors: Peter Coveney & Roger Highfield

In this deeply illuminating book, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield reveal what it will take to build a virtual, functional copy of a person in five steps. 

Along the way, they take you on a fantastic voyage through the complexity of the human body, describing the latest scientific and technological advances—from multiscale modelingto extraordinary new forms of computing—that will make “virtual you” a reality, while also considering the ethical questions inherent to realizing truly predictive medicine.