Ray Bradbury, science fiction author (and predictor of the future?) died this week at 91. He is responsible for the term “butterfly effect” which was coined from his novel The Sound of Thunder in which a man on a safari steps on and crushes a butterfly thus causing a drastic change on the future. How serendipitous that I am reading (listening to) Stephen King's latest opus, "11/22/63". It has a similar theme - how a well-meaning time traveler drastically distorts the future by performing a seemingly "good" act, in this case averting the assassination of JFK.
So do bad things really happen for a reason that is beyond our understanding? When calamity strikes good people does it mean the way has been paved for something better?
Luckily our only way of altering the future is to make the best choices we can today...
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