"...An elegant primer on a mind-blowing technology that could change our lives out of all recognition... On the way to describing...this new science, Amos provides lucid histories of mathematics, computing, the invention of the integrated circuit and discovery of DNA, all of which are improbably knockabout and entertaining... As compelling as anything by Isaac Asimov or Philip Dick... For an early and intriguing glimpse of one possible future, Genesis Machines is highly recommended."