From Bits To Qubits — And Butterflies Causing Hurricanes

Flap your wings like a butterfly, and go change the world. Go innovate!

I’ve been reading Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters by Dr Brian Klaas and John Murray [here], and it outlines that everything we do in our world has an effect on everything else. So, even the smallest of events can cause major changes in the course of our lives, and for the lives of others.

So you might take the bus instead of the car to work, and which will change your world and many other people’s worlds in some way. Perhaps by taking the bus, you twist your ankle on the way, and have to go to the hospital, and while you’re in the hospital you meet the person you will eventually fall in love with and marry. This new relationship inspires you to quit your boring job, and do research into cancer. You end up with a fantastic research career, and have three amazing kids, and seven grandchildren. For all your great work, you are awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and end the suffering of millions. But, if you took the car, you end up just going to work and coming back, and continue doing the same old job, never finding your soul-mate and living alone for the rest of your life. That’s chaos theory … everything you do, has an effect on everything else.