The purpose of the looking at the future...is to disturb the present!

Gaston Berger (1896-1960), francuski futurolog

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they're impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.
Link :
https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-find-the-longest-running-simple-computer-program/