Carole Cadwalladr When the novel I Hate the Internet came out in the US earlier this year, it had every likelihood of sinking without trace....

This book by J. Craig Venter, subtitled “From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life,” delivers on the promise implied by its titles, and no one but Venter could have written it. It is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the recent history of molecular biology and/or the future evolution of life on Earth.

John Naughton Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia University. His specialities include competition, copyright and telecommunications law. So far, so conventional. But Wu...