A New Kind Of Science: I Want To Believe
February 24, 2012 1:00 PM Subscribe
Where can I find the best summary of A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE? Or, which books published since then can be considered as sequels or follow-up books?
I find it almost impossible to believe that S.Wolfram was off the rails with all of his cellular automata research, but all of the critics were so mean when that book came out.
But, since then, perhaps someone very smart and good at popularizing science (James Gleick, for example) has taken a long, hard look at what was discovered by A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE, and re-written it to make it somehow clearer for layperson readers.
Has anything like that been written? Where can the best, most favorable reviews of the book be found?
I find it almost impossible to believe that S.Wolfram was off the rails with all of his cellular automata research, but all of the critics were so mean when that book came out.
But, since then, perhaps someone very smart and good at popularizing science (James Gleick, for example) has taken a long, hard look at what was discovered by A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE, and re-written it to make it somehow clearer for layperson readers.
Has anything like that been written? Where can the best, most favorable reviews of the book be found?
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Response by poster: What book has taken the "football" that ANKOS came up with, and run with it further down the field?
The titles above, yes, somewhat.
posted by shipbreaker at 1:22 PM on February 24, 2012
The titles above, yes, somewhat.
posted by shipbreaker at 1:22 PM on February 24, 2012
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posted by LobsterMitten at 1:15 PM on February 24, 2012