How Benedict Cumberbatch gave popular recognition to Alan Turing.

Before 2014, I doubt a normal person -understand this as a non-geek profile- really knew the impact of Alan Turing's work. I was 13 years old when the movie The imitation game came out and I can say that it was one the few directions that really marked a before and an after in me when I first saw it. Since then, I have easily watched at least 20 times and not because of its wonderful plot but for the marvelous presentation of such a complex topic such as computation history. 

Telecommunications, medicines and as many other inventions we enjoy today, its fundamentals and need took place due to the desperation and chaos that derived from World War II. Computers are not different. Like the movie presents, Nazi Germany stole a Polish cipher-based communication machine called Enigma and used it during the Blitzkrieg -the very first years of the war- to streamline the German war effort in addition to coordinate operations in various fronts without being caught in the process. This really affected the Allies, specially Britain since during the beginning of the conflict, its armed forces not only were proved to be inferior to fascism, but also demonstrated to the world that Britain, the biggest and more powerful empire of the 19th and early 20th century, was not as efficient as it once was. This historical context is important, since, it allow us to understand better the impact that, not only computation did during its very first months, but of the entire brilliance of Alan Turing's mind. It's incredible to think that with only 40 years of existence, this man not only saved its proper context by reducing the years of dispute, but at the same time he did that, also affected and improved the entire future of humanity.

I will not discuss the movie itself,  but instead, I would like to briefly say that, injustice, prejudges and discrimination stole one of the best and smartest human minds that have ever existed. Homosexual, atheist and smart were the most used adjectives used to describe Turing in his last years of life and even today we is remember by those words rather than by his work. As the title of this entry says, I could estate that it was until this movie came out, sadly 60 years later, that the common and traditional global population -again, a  non-geek person- met Turing for his invention and that popular history respected one of the best manifestations of human greatness.  

As a conclusion, I would just like to encourage you, the reader, to go and watch this masterpiece -this action probably will be made in a device that exists due to Alan Turing- in addition to invite you to reflect if you have ever met persons who suffers from these ridiculous and indecorous prejudges. If so, make a change and help the world to see their unique greatness, because maybe, it will be due to them that the world will be innovated once again.