Looking At Turing

Jim Jones has written in with the first of a series that explores the history of Mr. Alan Turing, and his connection with digital computing.

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Re:Good History

[Strange_Attractor]

This sort of freewheeling speculation is still (and always will be) possible - at least to bright young people who can't be browbeated, bribed, or otherwise made to respect received wisdom that strikes them as wrong. A few current examples - Linux coders, Stephen Hawking, K. Eric Drexler. Entrenched, and "self-evidently true" beliefs insisted nothing concrete (or interesting or possible) would come of their work - which added to their inspiration.

Certainty that that era is over has probably a big part of the "give up" status-quo indoctrination (I do not mean to attack you, but I think it's food for thought).