Review of 'Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
This book is clear, readable and sticks to science. Where he has ideas, he's very careful to qualify them by saying they're not proved, and well, cells aren't conscious sentient beings.
They do make for great complex chemical feedback loops, though.
The problem I have with this book is that it's too safe. The science he mentions isn't stretching the limit or even saying anything you wouldn't get out of a college biology textbook -- he's clearly got a scientist's perspective, but after reading science fiction (particularly Blood Music, which is happily out there in terms of its thinking) I was waiting for the big science reveal... which never came.