Listening to: Emerging Worldviews - Thomas Barnett

Found this on Rudy Ruckers blog.
It is a programmable computer based on ‘The Game of Life’:

These pages describe how we went about building a Wireworld computer. Although
at least one design exists for a tape-based Turing machine implemented in the `Game
of Life’, ours is, as far as we know, the first ever computer implemented as a cellular
automaton that you might reasonably want to write a program for. The design was done
by David Moore and Mark Owen, with the help of many others, between 1990 and 1992.
It’s a testament to our modesty that it was not until September 2004 that we wrote
up our work.

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