The Butterfly Effect

When I was a child,I read the story about how the battle was lost for the want of a horseshoe.Today I read about how a flutter of a butterfly in Amazonian Jungle can create ripples in NYSE.
The world was always of the same size as it is today,then how did it suddenly become a 'small place' , a 'global village'...?The links in the chain of events in our childhood story are more apparent than those of the modern day butterfly story.That no two events in the world are completely independent of each other would take a lot of insight to appreciate fully.The pertinent question I think is -How dependent are any two events which are 'apprently randomly' happening anywhere across the globe?
Is this question confines to the area of statistics or philosophy...I invite answers from you all...

Answer my friend is blowing in the wind...

One man's (or women's) answer can be the cue to a series of discoveries for another.When we think(or assume) that we know something,how sure are we?...very often when we think we have found an asnwer to a long disturbing query,there comes a new angle..a new perspective..a new discovery...but it will only come when we can recognise it..else it would never be seen.What we see may not exist..and what exists may not be seen by us at all.To make it more complex,we may see something,when something else exists.What am I pointing to...is that how sure can be we be about our answers ?... and on a more broad perspective how certain are we of our knowledge..of our existence and of our certianties ? An existential question -Do we really exist at all-If not then how would we know and how long would that take us to realise.Are we then not ..living on the Edge...

The Perpetual Idea Machine

Just wondering if a perpetual idea generating machine is feasible at all.Suppose one man's idea is an input to another man who generates more ideas from the input idea and so on..then it would lead to infinite chain of ideas..some useful..some useless...but since there are infinite ideas,there would be infinitely good ideas also.If such a machine can be made then,it would obviously be valued an infinite amount,unless all ideas are deemed to be of zero economic value.
But intuitively the idea of perpetual idea generation machine does not seem to be impossible... Invite your comments on this...