A New Kind of Science describes a radical vision of the future of science, based on Wolfram's long love affair with computers. The book's publisher, Wolfram Media, announces "a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe" and "a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public." Wolfram claims to offer a revolution in the nature of science, again and again distancing his work from what he calls traditional science, with remarks like "If traditional science was our only guide, then at this point we would probably be quite stuck." He stakes his claim in the first few lines of the book: "Three centuries ago science was transformed by the dramatic new idea that rules based on mathematical equations could be used to describe the natural world. My purpose in this book is to initiate another such transformation...."

The New York Review of Books: Is the Universe a Computer?