Maurice Perks is a retired IBM fellow who spent 50 years working on the challenges of large, complex IT systems. He still calls modern IT systems ‘computer systems.’ Our universe is, for him, the biggest computer system of them all. He passionately believes in engineering and in that our universe is properly engineered, and this is continuing but, we may be interfering with the designated program through our fixation with the concept of time and AI now. In this book, he considers how scientists, religious persons and philosophers consider the effects that our universal evolutionary program brings as it executes.
This book is neither fact nor fiction. It’s something in the middle. It’s about the universe and time and is a book for ordinary inquisitive people to read. Curious people who feel disconnected from much of the complex and jargon-heavy logic about the universe and time that comes from scientific...