Alan Turing doesn't commit suicide after WWII

So, WI Alan Turing hadn;t been outed as a homosexual after the war & eaten the cyani-delaced apple ? How would technological development have been affected had the man who cracked ENIGMA still lived- say as long as 1976 when Apple Computer (named in his honour) came into existence ?
 
So, WI Alan Turing hadn;t been outed as a homosexual after the war & eaten the cyani-delaced apple ? How would technological development have been affected had the man who cracked ENIGMA still lived- say as long as 1976 when Apple Computer (named in his honour) came into existence ?

Meh. Remember, he was a mathematician first, and his advances to computer science were primarily theory only. For example, Turing Machines are all well and good for theory, but don't have much in the way of practical applications. So, really, probably not much change at all. Slightly accelerated theory, but that's about it.
 

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In a stunning twist, Turing actually would have set back the process...well, it COULD be true...
 
And remember, he was going slowly insane from the changes in his body caused by the oestrogen he was being forced to take to 'cure' his homosexuality - it was either that or go to prison. Doesn't bode well for his academic state of mind, to say the least.
 
So, WI Alan Turing hadn;t been outed as a homosexual after the war & eaten the cyani-delaced apple ? How would technological development have been affected had the man who cracked ENIGMA still lived- say as long as 1976 when Apple Computer (named in his honour) came into existence ?

Mathematicians tend to do their important work early, so Turing would hardly make any great inventions during the 50s or later.

Weren't most of his work in code-breaking classified until the 70s? It would be difficult to send him on the kind of speaking tours that Einstein did.
 
there allot missunderstanding about Alan Turing
like in Histroy channel or Wikipedia

in some Biography stand that Turner wandet to
start small company to build computer (used in Cryptanalysis)

and after Histroy channel Documentation
he was murder by britsh goverment because of this
(those computers were "classified" technolgy)

The banal truth is, Alan Turing had no more intrest in computers
and focus his work on mathematical biology until his death
 

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Oh really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Computing_Engine

http://www.npl.co.uk/mathematics-scientific-computing/history-of-computing/

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http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish-05-12.html

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/my 1945 thread [URL="https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2188761&postcount=80"]Post 80 (page 4)
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When was homosexuality decriminalized in Britain (I think the late 60's?) Maybe Turing would have been able to vindicate himself and sue for the previous damages to his body through hormone therapy? Maybe his achievements in mathematics and computing would have viewed in a better light given changes in law?

Something tells me that even in the late 60's/early 70's homophobia might have been a greater issue than today, so maybe Turing's homosexuality would still have overshadowed his great academic accomplishments.
 

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If homosexuality was prosecuted every time, there wouldn't be a Cambridge University. Like with the Wilde case, someone had an axe to grind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history

1785 Jeremy Bentham is one of the first people to argue for the decriminalization of sodomy in England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history#cite_note-Fone-41836 – The last known execution for homosexuality in Great Britain.
1861 – In England, the Offences against the Person Act 1861 is amended to remove the death sentence for "buggery" (which had not been used since the 1830s). The penalty became imprisonment from 10 years to life.
1886 — In England, the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, outlawing sexual relations between men (but not between women) is given Royal Assent by Queen Victoria.
1921 – In England an attempt to make lesbianism illegal for the first time in Britain's history fails.
1937 – The first use of the pink triangle for gay men in Nazi concentration camps.
1958 – The Homosexual Law Reform Society is founded in the United Kingdom
1967 – The Sexual Offences Act 1967 decriminalises male homosexual behaviour in England and Wales
1981 – The European Court of Human Rights in Dudgeon v. United Kingdom strikes down Northern Ireland's criminalisation of homosexual acts between consenting adults, leading to Northern Ireland decriminalising homosexual sex the following year
 
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