DJH
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On Alan Turing's 100th Birthday....
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Miss Moonlight
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Imagine if he had been allowed to live as who he was, and not harrassed into suicide... where would our tech be if that brilliant man had continued his work?
InspectorMorse
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...it really does cause you to wonder "what if"...
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He was probably one of the three most important men instrumental in winning WWII and yet...so many folk have never heard of him, just because of the secrecy of his work. Responsible for the computers that we take for granted today (he laid the foundations for that), he didn't even get a Knighthood.
'If' the public had been made aware of 'all' that he had done, one commentator suggested he would have had a 'state' funeral. Instead, he died in almost obscurity and made to feel something akin to being 'sub human.' What a waste and what a travesty.
A memorial was unveiled to him in Cambridge (UK) last weekend . RIP Alan.
'If' the public had been made aware of 'all' that he had done, one commentator suggested he would have had a 'state' funeral. Instead, he died in almost obscurity and made to feel something akin to being 'sub human.' What a waste and what a travesty.
A memorial was unveiled to him in Cambridge (UK) last weekend . RIP Alan.
