>"A New Kind Of Science" was announced as available the 'Summer of 2002", and was finally released for sale on May 14, 2002.
>You must know Wolfram personally, to receive a copy 6 months before its release.

Its been "just around the corner" for over a decade.

>Like the comment given above, to call playing around with the values of 'c' in an iteration a "new kind of science" is to elevate the process of computations to the status of 'laws' of nature.

If you didn't twit filter me, I'd probably take a stab at explaining. But whats the point.