* The hand he overplayed was the application to the natural world—I think that will take longer to pay off than he predicted. *

Not that I actually understand it, for I am a UI designer, but Wolfram’s recent physics projects seems to be taking a fresh run at that.

https://www.wolframphysics.org/bulletins/2020/08/a-short-not...

disclosure: worked for Wolfram for 7 years, forgive me promoting stuff I worked on