zynphull’s Reviews > The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society > Status Update

Beniger spends a few dozen pages painfully describing DNA structure, replication, and evolution in an appendix on "What is life?" He sounds as if in functionalist craze, seeking essential processes uniting molecular, genetic, cultural, and algorithmic control/programming. But it's all metaphor, of course. Despite that, so far, no epistemology, just a lot of grand statements uniting disparate levels of reality.