About the book: 1975 / Drabkin A. S. The computer and the living organism. M., “Knowledge”, 1975. 144 p. (Read it, comrade!). The problem stated in the title of the book is extremely broad. The author touches on only some of its aspects: the use of living nature patents in the design and programming of electronic machines; biological foresight and computers; the relationship between the study of memory of living organisms and computer memory; a more general relationship between the evolution of the living and machine worlds, etc. The book is written in accessible language and contains many interesting examples.