Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication Page -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- 000 Introduction -- Computers uncovered -- The science of computers -- 001 Can You Compute? -- Understanding the impossible -- Turing's unstoppable machines -- Turing's legacy -- Complexity is simple -- Does P = NP? -- Oracles and other complexities -- Theoretical futures -- 010 Disposable Computing -- Thinking logically -- Building brains -- Anatomy of a digital brain -- The end of the beginning -- The Law of Moore -- The future is many -- Beyond von Neumann -- 011 Your Life in Binary Digits -- Learning to program computers -- Climbing higher -- Bases for data -- Software crisis -- Virtual futures -- 100 Monkeys with World-Spanning Voices -- Diverse connections -- Inter-networking -- Addressing for success -- Spinning webs over networks -- Weaving tangled webs -- Webs of deceit -- Digital lives -- 101 My Computer Made Me Cry -- The birth of friendly computing -- Seeing with new eyes -- Photos and chicken wire -- Waking dreams -- It's not what you do but the way that you do it -- My pet computer -- Human-computer integration -- 110 Building Bionic Brains -- Teaching computers how to play -- The birth of intelligence -- The seasons of AI -- Intelligence from feet to head -- Adaptation by natural selection -- Learning to learn, predicting the predictors -- Complex futures -- 111 A Computer Changed My Life -- Computer creativity -- Computational biology -- Computer medicine -- Computer detectives -- Endnotes -- Bibliographic Notes -- Index.