[Erwin]

Sounds like a premise for a dystopian sci-fi story: a future where every identity is exactly planned, where everyone's life is determine by ... 33 bits. Donald Sutherland can be the benevolent ruler that tells the protagonist how the unbridled greed of the 21st century brought us here (Hollywood adaptation can add an ironic anti-consumerist twist).

Perhaps this could be a retro sci-fi a la "Brazil", with each person carrying around a punch card with his 33-bits on them. A computer error means two people are issued the same bit pattern. In a defining shot, they hold up their punch cards up against the sun and see the holes line up. Maybe an Egyptian tomb opens too!

[jacques_chester]

Your mistake was posting this here, and not on Reddit.