Half-eaten apple, world war and Alan Turing
“On the day I disappear, you will understand, from the twilight stars beyond the west, you will then inquire about me…”—just like this poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam, by the time the government of the United Kingdom admitted its mistake, it was already too late. Alan Turing, the theoretical pioneer of the modern computer, had already ended his own life over 5.5 decades before British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in 2009, said that the UK government had made a mistake in the 1950s. “The fault lay in the UK’s judicial and legal system. As a result, one of the most brilliant individuals in our history was unjustly sentenced. For this, the UK government is ashamed and apologetic,” he said.
