Alan Turing

     Alan Turing was a man that could have changed the world much sooner than it did. Turing worked for Britain's decoding center as he was able to decode the messages from the Germans. He was working on a digital computer that his colleagues dismissed, so the project never went over. Looking back at his studies, it seemed as the computer was going to be designed far more powerful than anything released in the upcoming years. The man had a genius vision that was soon later discovered and it does relate to what were talking about in class as we move through the computer era. The one thing that it seems relates the most is everyones denial over the computer. No one thought it was a good idea for Turing and it can still be seen today even with Jobs and Wozniak. They tried to get the Apple computer over with people and try to find investors to really make an impact, but everyone just wasn't into the idea and didn't believe people wanted a personal computer. So now when the computer was a hit and people did want computers, the ideas Jobs had behind creating the Lissa lead to the board of directors kicking him off the project and onto the Macintosh, where that became more of a success than the Lissa did. As Steve Jobs said "People don't know what they want until you show it to them."