Just learned about this. A long read, but really interesting.

  • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    He absolutely did not invent CA. His book was published well after it had become an established modeling technique. Conway’s game of life was published in 1970. Complexity theory modeling had moved well past CA by the time Wolfram’s book came out, to the point that most of us didn’t know why he bothered writing it, much less thought it would revolutionize science.