For the #SciArtSeptember prompt futurist: Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, & complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), but that we needed an objective, double-blind test … 1/n

Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & hero. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, and complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), but that we needed an objective, double-blind test to determine whether something/someone was 1/n