Maybe "review" is overly generous, and it's not like anyone is on the edge of their seat for my opinion of a 13-year-old book; still, I wanted to bring up a few ideas from the book for discussion. Programming the Universe is Seth Lloyd's introduction to quantum computing. After a primer on information theory--one of the mathematical foundations of computing--and the inner working of classical computers (like the one I'm typing on and the one you're reading on), Lloyd explores two main topics. The first is how quantum … [Read more...] about Science Book Review: Programming the Universe