2 posts and columns on universe

Cisco Reminds Us Once Again How Big the Internet Is, and How Big It’s Getting

in Enterprise on July 14, 2011 at 10:24 am PT

As of 2008, there were more devices connected to the Internet than there were people on the planet. And there are soon going to be a lot more. How many? Networking giant Cisco Systems would like you to know that, well, let’s just say it’s a lot and leave it at that.
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Not With a Bang But a Fatal Error

in News on January 4, 2008 at 10:49 am PT

Our universe could be the hobby of some Cartesian Evil Genius who runs our lives the way one might play The Sims. That’s the gist of the argument proffered in “The Physical World as a Virtual Reality,” a new scientific paper from Massey University professor Brian Whitworth. “[L]ogically the world could be an information simulation [...]