For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.