The Information History of Evolution
This is not just history. This is life.By Kari Vierimaa
Length7h 5m
About this audiobook
Imagine the universe as a badly run startup governed by one ruthless rule: entropy. Everything must get messier.
This book recasts the story of life not as a noble ascent toward perfection, but as a series of desperate software patches against physics, which is actively trying to delete the code. Biology is the cosmos's first attempt at computing, burdened by massive technical debt.
In this book, you will discover:
- Why thermodynamics always sends a bill.
- How sex was invented to force software updates through a network.
- Why biological bodies are just disposable hardware for immortal data.
- The absolute physical limits of AI and the universe itself.
With dry IT humor, Kari Vierimaa takes you on a journey from the wet chemistry of a cell to our interstellar future. We are not the endpoint of evolution. We are merely its biological boot sequence.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Technology
Length7 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Information History of Evolution
16ESM3 & AlphaFold
2Prologue
17Synthetic Biology
3Entropy & The Startup House
18Functionalism & Silicon Brains
4Kurzweil’s Epochs
19Mind Uploading
5RNA-to-DNA Migration
20The Garbage Collector
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6Von Neumann’s Universal Constructor
21Tyranny of Carbon
7Genomic Technical Debt
22Extreme Environments
8Information Density
23Hardware-Software Co-Design
9Game Theory & Cooperation
24Fermi Paradox (Error 404)
10Eukaryotic Merger
25Matrioshka Brains
11The HR Disaster
26The Brief Window
12Language as a Protocol
27Computronium
13Memes as Mind Viruses
28Cosmic Consciousness
14The Printing Press
29The Endpoint
15AI Decodes the Dark Matter
30Epilogue
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