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In October 1945, von Neumann wrote to Zworykin, stating, ‘I agree with you completely.’ The proposal was totally in line with what von Neumann had learned from the extensive research programme of the Manhattan Project, which relied on complex simulations of physical processes to predict real-world outcomes. In what could be taken as the founding statement of computational thought, he wrote: ‘All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.’
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
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