Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life by J. Craig Venter
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of the Digital Life after I watched an interview with J. Craig Venter on an episode of Charlie Rose.

I was fascinated by how much has occurred in DNA and genome research, especially in the last three years, so I kept reading even though some of the text gets bogged down when credit is given to the labs and scientists working in the related fields. Reading also got tough when I stumbled over the names of the viruses and bacterias used in the experiments. Venter does his best to frequently summarize and to use analogies to explain things to those readers outside this field. The remaining chapters describe what he thinks will be possible whenever our technology is able to keep pace with the theoretical such as using electromagnetic senders and receivers (life replicators) and some possibilities of applications.

I recommend this to ALL readers.

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