Talk:Electronic Life

Still a stub?
Is this article actually a stub? I suspect that once upon a time it was a stub, and somebody flagged it as such, and then later someone else added more information, but nobody has gotten around to removing the stub flag. (Of course I'm not saying it is a good article. However, not having read the book there's not much I can do about that). --Peter Knutsen (talk) 10:49, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Uknown Importance
It's nothing Earth-shattering now, and as the article makes clear, it hasn't a scholarly bone in its body. However, as a data-point: This was the very first book on computing that I read, and to a thirteen-year-old in a tiny town in Wyoming, Crichton's voice was god-like. I gobbled it up and was instantly hooked. I spent the next years devouring every computer book I could find in our tiny public library, writing out on paper elegant programs that would never run because I didn't have any hardware. Ahh ... the heady days of obsessed adolescent geek-hood. So, for me, importance=monumental. Just one data-point. Terrel Shumway (talk) 22:26, 20 November 2013 (UTC)