It’s Alan Turing’s birthday this week.
You’ll recall Turing was the famous British mathematician whose work helped pioneer computing as we know it today.
Try to imagine today’s world if Alan Turing hadn’t exercised his knowledge.
No Ultra decrypts during the second world war. (Google ‘Bletchley Park’ when you have a moment.)
No Turing machine or computational algorithms, both of which paved the way for the computer or device on which you’re reading this.
No Turing Test, which became a foundation stone of artificial intelligence.
The Alan Turings don’t just change the world, they create it. They help solve our biggest problems and create ways to make our lives better.
Think of the printing press (1440), flushing toilets (1596), electric lighting (1800s), the telephone (1876), the motor car (1886), penicillin (1928), and WiFi (1990s). There are thousands more.
Nations that support their Alan Turings aren’t waiting for their futures to occur, they’re creating them. They’re investing in the ‘difficult things’ that build the world, not the easy wins.
Alan Turing died at age 41. He achieved a vast amount in just two decades of adult life. Imagine what he would have done had he lived to an old age.
His birthday reminds us that time can’t be wasted.
Find the Alan Turings and invest in them now, regardless if they’re in STEM, manufacturing, medicine, music, machinery or metals.
They make the world.
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