| DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz
From Universes to Multiverses: New Frontiers
for Life Technologies
Digital Biology: How Nature Is Transforming Our Technology and Our
Lives
By Peter J. Bentley. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 272 pp. Cloth, $25.
Peter Bentley is an honorary research fellow in computer science at University
College London, working in evolutionary design and computation. His book
depicts a future world where computers can create universes in which are living
biological forms that reproduce, grow and think. Computers become greenhouses
for new kinds of nature: Digital immune systems detect hackers, ants solve
scheduling problems, seashells compose new music, and so on. This, and much
more, is evolutionary computing.
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