It's amusing. Back when Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" (NKS) came out, I was one of the masochistic types that actually read the whole thing. It's a fairly decent introductory text to cellular automata, but it's not new, and wasn't back then either. Well, the amusing bit is that he explicitly states in there how while the visual system has meaningful potential for interpreting complex patterns such as those generated by cellular automata, the auditory system is too linear and limited to perceive such things. And not too long later, he publishes a cellular automata -based music generator on his website (this thing has been around for a while).