[Physicist]

Most reviewers familiar with cellular automata said there was little new in the book.

I've been wondering that. Didn't John Horton Conway make a similar series of claims for automata?

[onedoug]

Seems like another take on fractals.

[Salman]

Most reviewers familiar with cellular automata said there was little new in the book.

I've been wondering that. Didn't John Horton Conway make a similar series of claims for automata?

Indeed. Or perhaps speculation rather than claims. So did Solomon W. Golomb and others. That was thirty or more years ago.