Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.
Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.
Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.