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Physicist John Wheeler asked the famous 'It from bit?' question: what if at its heart the universe is not a collection of particles, forces and fields but rather a collection of bits?
In this lecture, we provide a brief history of text processing and look towards the future when the computer sonnet or love poem might become a reality.