Stella and Alan Turing

Stella is on the picture. Alan Turing was the hero of the (motion) picture we went to see per my request.

We took LM, and he did very well indeed. He didn't understand why Turing took his own life, and thus I explained the concept of homosexuality to him, that it was a crime during Turing's times, that the judge gave him a choice between chemical castration (which needed to be explained as well) and prison. He couldn't understand it. He couldn't compute that it may be against the law to "like" someone of one's own gender. I was proud of us, HD and myself, for making it hard for him to get it. It means that our constant reminders to not judge others by the color of their skin, their religion, or their accent, but to focus on how they treat others perhaps are heard and retained. 

Turing died at 41. I know his focus was artificial intelligence, but I wish he were there to see the internet. What would he make of it? Would he be the hacker's hacker, the king of Anonymous, dismembering all terrorist websites? Would he get involved with nanotechnology or bio-engineering? Would he have been one of the ones to predict the recent global market crash?

What a senseless loss...