It was mostly women, which was actually a bigger problem because despite a massive headstart, the British computer industry basically fired every early computer scientist they had the moment the boys came home and sent the ladies back to the kitchen.
Then they couldn’t navigate the conflict created by their class system: only gentleman received an education, but only working class men could work with machines, so who was supposed to work with computers?
In the end a big lead on computer development never really materialized into a real advantage for the UK because their culture just wasn’t ready for it.
This is literally what breaking down social barriers (you know, DEI) is supposed to address, so maybe we don’t waste the next opportunity.
My grandmother was one of these women. She wouldn’t even talk about it, probably for reasons to do with what you just said.
So much human potential is squandered by the false divisions holding people back.
If she worked at Bletchley or somewhere similarly top secret during the war then she probably wouldn’t have talked about it because it was classified for decades
Was it classified because cracking the Enigma machine was still a matter of national security by the 1950s or because the UK didn’t want to talk about the people that cracked it?
Enigma was widely used, not just by Germany during the war, and was still current in the 50s. Additionally, the methods used to defeat Enigma had value against other encryption. It is also the policy of British intelligence not to publicise their work or capabilities.
British intelligence workers also took the Official Secrets Act at its word, while their American counterparts eventually assumed that as it was in the past they could talk about it.
False divisions or some say wage slave capitalism.
I did not know about this. Thank you for prompting me to go learn some more about it
After that, there’s the women who got the US to space, and then maybe my all-time favorite, Ada Lovelace
I mean, who are you pretending that should do the soft part? Men!? Hahaha, men are supposed to do the hard ware, as we are hard, and only hard men are good for this job: Muscular, grisly and well toned men, with hard
Sorry what were we talking about?
Hard men. Keep going.
Hard. Men.
Also very funny once again white woman championing a minorities obstacle leading to his death and making it about them. Oh that homosexual was put to death but white women had to lose their job and return to a life of “doing chores at home” good work woman after 50 years of struggling now you get to do both!
Put to death? What is this nonsense? It is thought that he accidentally poisoned himself.
Why did he kill himself? Was it because society forced him to mutilate his genitals as a baby like the rest of the western civilization? Was it something else?
Its thought he was experimenting and ate the poisoned apple by mistake.
Totally the British government would never lie about the evil they did. /S
It was my city of Manchester where he was working at the University when he was arrested. 😞.
St least now I get to drive down Alan Turing Way.
Turing didn’t code anything until 1948, when he wrote one program at Manchester. This was riddled with bugs and had to be largely rewritten by Geoff Tootill.
Additionally, Turing didn’t even work with computers during the war, though his pre-war theoretical work was influential on those who did.
youre telling me a queer theoretically worked on this?
