Edward Lorenz would change the way many people would think. Computers seemed to these scientists like large calculators that were not competent enough to do the necessary computations. In the 1960s, not only did meteorologists dislike forecasting, they also mistrusted computers. Gleick explains Lorenz's processes and numerical methods and applications that would make him the weather god in his own artificial universe. Although his machine broke down about once a week, Lorenz managed to mesmerize his colleagues. Lorenz, a research meteorologist, was a fixture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lorenz had created a type of weather Camelot. Instead, the weather was always a permanent, dry condition as if it was the middle of the day in some midseason. The weather changed slowly yet it never rained, seasons never changed, and nightfall never arrived.
Gleick begins by discussing the weather simulator created by Edward Lorenz. The book frequently returns to the information in Chapter 1, particularly the work of Edward Lorenz. "Chaos: Making a New Science" by James Gleick begins with the most basic knowledge of chaos as it is presented in weather.
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