Andrej Karpathy's Review of Life at the Speed of Light

“The book covers a brief history of the discovery of DNA as the "software of life", the work that went into the sequencing of it (read), the ability to synthesize it (write), the process of introducing it to a host cell (boot), and speculations about what all of this technology means for the future. The book does a pretty good job answering the question of what the sequencing of the human genome looked like "on the ground" for the people involved, and gives a good sense and quite a few details into what kinds of problems there were along the way and how they were being resolved over time in the process of science/engineering of the achievement. I thought that the core thesis of the book "life at the speed of light" was a bit of a stretch. At one point, I wasn't sure why, a number of pages are devoted to teleportation in Stark Trek and then quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation. This is one of my favorite pet peeves because I believe I think it really confuses the public (we're