![]() ![]() Something remarkable has happened these past two years. Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Continue reading We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute! April 6, 2022 And it’s been interesting to go back into my archives (and, yes, those backup tapes from 30 years ago were hard to read!) and relive some of what finally led to the delivery of the ideas and results of A New Kind of Science as truckloads of elegantly printed books with striking covers. Some of what I’ll talk about happened twenty years ago, some more like thirty years ago. But here I want to share some of the more practical “behind the scenes” journey of the making of what I and others usually now call simply “the NKS book”. I’ve written before (even in the book itself) about the intellectual journey involved in the creation of A New Kind of Science. And painstakingly laying out page after page of what on May 14, 2002, would be published as A New Kind of Science. Crafting an exposition that I wrote and rewrote to make as clear as possible. Developing new kinds of computational diagrams. Almost every day of my thirties, and a little beyond, I tenaciously worked on it. And its creation took more than a decade of my life. In the end it’s about five and a half pounds of paper, 1280 pages, 973 illustrations and 583,313 words.
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