At 01:48 AM 11/19/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Indeed, Dr. Wheeler discussed similar ideas decades ago and Seth Lloyd of MIT has been publishing papers for some time on the universe a s acomputer.
And of course Wolfram's book is a big seller. I won't comment, except that I see no particularly strong evidence that he has changed the way science is done, or will be done. Others have written harsher reviews. I admire him for his dedication, but I think he missed the boat by not working with others and working on specific problems.
steve
