tedster - 7:07 am on Mar 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

Wolfram's celluar automata approach to computing has a powerful and elegant depth that just might stand everything you think you know about computing on its head.

I've been recommending "A New Kind Of Science" to people for years - no, it's not the easiest read (and it's VERY long, too) but it really does introduce a paradigm that could change everything about how we do science and computation. There are some fundamental assumptions at the root of science that may just be untrue, and Wolfram sees the way around those potholes.

I look forward to what this approach may offer. Wolfram brings fundamental genius on the level of Einstein and Hawking, rather than intelligence at the level of Page and Brin.