It's arguably ~2500 years old, dating back to the Pythagoreans, who believed that "all is number" and had a very large and complex system of musical rituals. T

It's arguably ~2500 years old, dating back to the Pythagoreans, who believed that "all is number" and had a very large and complex system of musical rituals. The modern manifestation is mostly the intellectual product of Konrad Zuse, who wrote "digital physics" in 1969. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics Wolfram, Tegmark, Bostrom, etc. are mostly downstream of Zuse.