6/10/09

Did the world’s wealthiest generationforfeit their children’s financial futurefor present prosperity?

grandchildren



Mike Thompson, Via Slate Cartoon Index

The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today


produces a tiny change…


…so, in a month's time


a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast


 doesn't happen


or maybe one that wasn't going to happen


 does


 


Ian Stewart


The Mathematics of Chaos


 


Can non-random events


cause random effects?


 


What do you do


if you possess a brief case that may contain either $0 or $1,000,000


and are offered $200,000 for the case?


 


What if the majority of a civilization


 collectively chose the case and lost


but don’t know


or could but don't want to understand what they should?

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