{"id":88,"date":"2009-01-06T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T11:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-02-11T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T22:44:58","slug":"what-happened-to-a-new-kind-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"What happened to A New Kind of Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent genesis post reminded me of Stephen Wolfram&#8217;s A New Kind of Science, and prompted me to check its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Kind-Science-Stephen-Wolfram\/dp\/1579550088\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1231159919&amp;sr=8-1\">Amazon listing<\/a>.\u00a0 I thought there must be many people who never read it, and would now be trying to sell it used.\u00a0 Sure enough, there&#8217;s more than 100 copies available for $11 and up.<\/p>\n<p>However I also have wondered how much that book was a marketing campaign versus an important work.\u00a0 Based on some of the more rigorous reviews, I&#8217;m now pretty confident the work is going to fade into obscurity.\u00a0 Or I guess it already did, until I brought it up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent genesis post reminded me of Stephen Wolfram&#8217;s A New Kind of Science, and prompted me to check its Amazon listing.\u00a0 I thought there must be many people who never read it, and would now be trying to sell it used.\u00a0 Sure enough, there&#8217;s more than 100 copies available for $11 and up. However [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}