Oh, the problem is that Wolfram portraits his book as the ultimate breakthrough, even though at bests its an entertaining pop-sci tome.<p>See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;quant-ph&#x2F;0206089" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;quant-ph&#x2F;0206089</a><p>Also funny, from the same author:<p>&gt; “The impact of NKS on all the areas of computer science and physics I’m familiar with has been basically zero,” he says. “As far as I can tell, the main impact is that people now sometimes use the adjective ‘Wolframian’ to describe breathtaking claims for the trivial or well-known.” [Martin] Davis offers a sunnier take: “The book has a lot of beautiful pictures.”