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NKS mention in "River of Gods" by Ian McDonald

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Posted by: Abby Nussey

NKS was mentioned in River of Gods by Ian McDonald, Pyr, 2007, p. 205.

NOTE: This book takes place in the year 2047.

In her final High School year...she concealed her social gawkiness behind glitterball walls of three-dimension cellular automata. Her end-of-year project relating the delicate forms in her computer to the baroque glass shells of microscopic diatoms had boggled even her math teacher.

By her second year she was...probing beneath the surface dazzle of her black-and-white virtual world to the bass-line funk of the rules. Simple programs giving rise to complex behaviour was the core of the Wolfram/Friedkin conjecture.






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