90's Alan Chat

Just imagined another conversation with 90's Alan. 

Servant Alan :  "Hi 90's Alan, how are you?" 

90's Alan : "I'm fine how are you?"

Servant Alan :  " fine."

90's Alan :  "Do you still watch knight rider?" 

Servant Alan : "No, But I talk to machines every day?" 

90's Alan : "really, how?" 

Servant Alan : "Not too long ago my DAB radio broke, but I realized that smart speakers cost the same price at the time so I replaced it with smart speaker". 

90's Alan : "What is a DAB radio?" 

Servant Alan : "It is like a transistor FM radio, but  the signal turns off and on in pulses to encode characters that describe how to assemble the sound perfectly"

90's Alan :  "Like Morse code?" 

Servant Alan :  "A bit like that, but a microprocessor interprets the code and spurts out crystal clear sound, it is a computer that pretends to be a transistor radio."

90's Alan : "What do you say to the smart speaker?"

Servant Alan :  "I ask it for the news, I ask it logical questions like what the date will be in 97 days and 8 hours, I also ask it to turn on gadgets. Sometimes I just ask it to play the radio and it plays it through the internet". 

90's Alan : "Wow.... Why do you call yourself servant Alan?" 

Servant Alan : "I am like millennium Alan but I don't think global warming is a mild problem that will fix itself when the fossil fuels run out and I realized that everything I do in this world creates a never ending chain reaction that goes around the whole planet and eventually effects every person in the future so I try to be a good servant to all people of the future, that is what they call the 'butterfly effect'. 

90's Alan : "What is the butterfly effect?" 

Servant Alan : "Look it up, not with your internet speeds though, ha ha ha ha. Better start now, ha ha ha, see ya". 

Butterfly Effect

There is a theory called the Butterfly effect. It is a theory that very small things have a very big effect on big events. The main example of this is that the air pressure from the flapping wings of a butterfly can cause a hurricane on the other side of the planet though a series of chain reactions.

I can think of many examples myself, I could ask a driver for directions and cause that driver to avoid a traffic accident because a speeding car was due to hit the car but I caused it to be late for the event. Or the opposite could happen.

Our life is a long series of chain reactions and I often wonder what the world would be like if I wasn't born because I know that I leave a trail of small chain reactions that go around the planet many times.

For example, I could ask a doctor if cooking oil causes cancer, my question causes the doctor to remember that his oil needs changing in his car. The doctor then goes to a garage to change his oil and meets an old friend at the garage. They decide to meet up for a meal. The doctor and his friend bring their children. The children meet at the restaurant and fall in love and get married 2 years later and have one kid.

Now if I didn't ask the doctor if cooking oil causes cancer in this scenario then the doctor would go to the garage later in the week and would not meet his old friend and their children would not meet and they would not get married and his grand child would not be born. This is a bizzar story but that is how life works. Everything is connected and there are countless chain reactions to seemingly simple things. 

I hope that I leave a positive chain reaction behind me. And if you were wondering, yes perhaps this entry could cause a butterfly affect. Perhaps it may effect people that are not born yet. Well I would say, "Be Good".