Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.
As regular readers of this blog know I have an abiding interest in Artificial Intelligence, and, in particular, it's potential to develop proto-consciousness, or,...
On January 3, 2009, an anonymous programmer mined Bitcoin's Genesis Block, embedding within it a newspaper headline: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of...