Adina Levin, having read my ramble about Stephen Wolfram’s presentation at PopTech, recommends Kurzweil’s appreciation of him, which she has summarized here. The Kurzweil piece is well-written and leave us humanities majors behind about a third of the way in.

There’s also a good article — again only two-thirds beyond my comprehension — by Steven Weinberg in the NY Review of Books.

Steve Yost writes pithily about reading Wolfram. He says:

The repetitiveness of Wolfram’s style led me to think that near the end he’d reveal that the book was generated using his main thesis as the initial condition of a CA algorithm. Now that would be a substantial example.

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