nice punch-up: "The first system of cellular automata was developed in the 1940s by John von Neumann as an exercise to understand the problem of building self-r

nice punch-up: "The first system of cellular automata was developed in the 1940s by John von Neumann as an exercise to understand the problem of building self-replicating robots. As the Terminator franchise did not exist in von Neumann’s time, this was generally accepted as being a Good Idea."