Hack the Universe

Warren Ellis offers a tidy summation on a lengthy Scientific American physics article, Information in the Holographic Universe:

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.