Enigma
Bletchley Park, the World War II British Intelligence site, is famous for cracking Germany’s Enigma code, led by the genius Alan Turing. What made the cryptic codes so hard to decipher was their complexity – literally 15 billion trillion possible combinations (that’s 15 with 18 zeros). What’s more, the code was changed every 24 hours. Isn’t that a lot like life? Every day we face new possibilities, fresh surprises, novel connections and unexpected events. Our lives may seem routine, but order on the surface hides a complex cipher of continuous, dynamic interactions. Our lives are a puzzling, fascinating Enigma code.
— Wayne Visser
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