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It seems like we never have any happy news here at the Sky Organization. Well, how about this?
Alan Turing, who is credited with the computer that broke the German Enigma code and helped win the Second World War, will appear on the fifty-pound note beginning in 2021. He was chosen from a shortlist that included Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking. Turing died from poison, possibly self-inflicted, after being convicted of "gross indecency" and undergoing chemical castration in 1954. He was 41. Britain could be the world leader in computer technology today, but decided that policing people's private lives was more important. What can we learn from this?
Turing said, "We can see only a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
Alan Turing, who is credited with the computer that broke the German Enigma code and helped win the Second World War, will appear on the fifty-pound note beginning in 2021. He was chosen from a shortlist that included Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking. Turing died from poison, possibly self-inflicted, after being convicted of "gross indecency" and undergoing chemical castration in 1954. He was 41. Britain could be the world leader in computer technology today, but decided that policing people's private lives was more important. What can we learn from this?
Turing said, "We can see only a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
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