Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram’s controversial book about literally everything is readable on-line right now as well. A New Kind of Science is what the title says it is about. And as science is as much socially constructed as it is invented, Wolfram’s book was either received as cursing in church, or completely ignored.
The author wasn’t a scientist, but a succesful software entrepreneur. So, he didn’t belong to the tribe. And it might explain his insistence that everything in nature is based on little programs, that come time are automatically executed.
From what I’ve read, I have to say it is at least intriguing in some aspects. But, a lot of his ideas are not that new. And an author who announces his own genius from time to time basically is annoying.
[x]#395 fan zondag 8 februari 2004 @ 19:47:57
