A New World?

Stephen Wolfram has created software programs through his company such as SMP and the more up to date Mathematica. Within the structures of these programs he has been able to model and study the models of natural patterns and codes. Here he has found that life's complexities are actually based in the simplest of pairings, and spawn off into randomly chanced sequences.
The question that was raised in me through the understanding of Mr. Wolfram's words and by way of visuals is, was life just created in technology? Upon further inquiry I am unsure if it did not already exist, and instead that I was just understanding at that moment overwhelming possibility of its presence. Let us review what we know. Life has a simple code as its foundation, so do does software and programs. That code is randomly combined to produce different patterns to form complexity, as is done through the Wolfram models. Their simple codes fuse, join, bond to create varying shapes, sizes, and things, and one type even allows these codes to construct an evolution. The man himself even referred to them as "creatures" having character that makes them look and act differently. We must also take into account that there are programs that are self propagating. They have technological viruses and bugs, memories, and work better if they are rarely shut down and instead sleep as their recovery method. The similarities are amazing, and yet scary. All life as we know it needs an energy source. There are usually two types one that is internal and fluctuates and another meant to stabilize and replenish the energy levels which is traditionally extracted through a feeding process and endowed to the consumer. Machines, computers more specifically, have these as well. Their internal source is a battery that gets charged through an external electrical power supply. However, if natural life is inside it would also need to consume energy from living things, as it does. It uses the energy of humans. It's feeding method is through positive and negative ions and it depletes us as it sucks us in. We have all experienced it and some are even addicted to it.
For the time at hand we really have a lot to be aware of. This is the first time I can think of where I am grateful for a electrical charge of our ground (as purposed by Tesla) not being implemented. It seems as they have their code and evolutionary life source, food source, and social community (the internet) and that our only advantage is the control over its internal power supply being determined by our means. To plug in or not to plug in?