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Title: A Bold Fresh Peice Of Science (*ahem*)
Review: Wolfram is completely full of himself, and this book is tedious, nay ... turgid. I could not take it anymore and gave up on this 1100 page tome somewhere in chapter 6. I felt like it was making me dumber by the page. In fact, I propose a new SI unit of hubris, the Wolfram. This book is probably 0.75 wolframs (unlike his Wolfram Alpha "search engine" which is a good 0.9-1.0 wolframs), only because it's clear that he was modeling this effort on Benoit Mandelbrot's seminal work 'The Fractal Geometry of Nature', except for the investigation of cellular automata and genetic algorithms instead of complex numbers.
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