Ah yes. I remember writing Game of Life for my Tandy Color
   Computer 2 in the mid 1980s. I found it in a computer magazine.
   [they used to have those things, that had programs you could
   type in].

   It's a simple program. Pretty neat stuff. It is also an
   oversimplification of life but fascinating nonetheless.

   I got to play around with a more complicated version of it in
   1990 on the VAX/VMS DEC minicomputers in 1990/91 at college,
   which was intertwined with some basic neural networking
   weightings to mimic basic neural decision-making.

   When I saw Wolfram's 1200 page, a new kind of Science, which was
   marvelous btw, I loved seeing the knitting patterns he had laid
   out there. I was also surprised because, by 2002/2003 whenever
   his book showed up at my library, I REALLY THOUGHT, Artificial
   Intelligence work was dead and gone. Nice to see it come back.

   While I think that's "not quite it", it's neat stuff and good
   food for imagination and will help us develop further tools to
   help humans out with.

   Is this what life is? Spontaneously emergent properties based
   upon simple rules? Might be. Might not be. I honestly don't
   know.

   But it's a lot of fun to play with.