Part 3: How Computers Evolve
CHAPTERS
CHAPTER 9 THE ORIGINS OF COMPUTER DNA
CHAPTER 10 HOW SMALL MUTATIONS PAY OFF BIG
CHAPTER 11 HONEY, I’VE SHRUNK THE PC
CHAPTER 12 EVOLUTION OF THE SUPER COMPUTER
CHAPTER 13 HOW CAMERAS CAPTURE MEMORIES
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
—Richard Dawkins
It sounds strange to think of an inanimate object evolving. When we think of evolution, we think of the eons it took fish to emerge from the waters and walk, or crawl, or slither, or whatever they did to become full-fledged land ...
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