Information may be a fifth state of matter

This is kind of ridiculous.

On the one hand, information and matter are inextricably linked... you might say matter itself is merely composed of information -- the matter's current state, combined with unchangeable laws governing state transitions over time.

But the idea that we're creating more information than there ever has been from a physics standpoint is absolutely preposterous. The physical world is absolutely jam-packed with information that's already there -- the exact location and state of each particle of matter is information. As far as physics is concerned, we're merely rearranging that information... but have no fear that there will be any physical inflection point if we continue to rearrange bits on hard drive platters.