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: Disposbale 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index.