Hack the universe

BoingBoing patron saint Warren Ellis spake thusly, and lo; it was good:

Read this Scientific American piece. Short version; the universe is actually a two-dimensional plane packed with information, and the three-dimensions universe we perceive is nothing but an expression of that information. Matter and energy and life are, in fact, holograms. It leaves something very very interesting open for the future. If the universe is a vast two-dimensional plane of information — then it can be hacked.

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