What are other NKS technology applications?
There are lots. WolframTones is an early example of mass customization–in which complex objects can automatically be “custom made.” Beyond personal signalling, there are many other places where this is extremely useful. There’s also a lot of NKS technology in the pipeline that’s based on finding single simple programs that are good for particular purposes. (Rule 30, for example, is a good randomness generator or cryptosystem.) NKS gives one a new kind of engineering, where one searches broadly in the computational universe rather than just constructing a design. The results are often tremendously unexpected–and extremely powerful.
