A review by lakmus
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul C.W. Davies

3.0

Overall this added up to an entertaining collection of writings about intersection of information and biology, but - as Davies points out - it's not yet a coherent field of study (?) and so perhaps we can't get anything more than an entertaining collection of writing. In the end it, I got a bunch of interesting party anecdotes, but nothing much in terms of understanding (biology and information are intertwined, no shit).

Maybe I'm just annoyed about physicists dipping their greedy paws into every other science willy-nilly, with readily available 'cows in a vacuum' and little appreciation of the history and nuance of each field.