Alan Turing had the great fortune to be born in an age where he could get funding for a machine that no one understood or really believed would work. He had the great misfortune of being born into an age that thought who he had sex with was more important than his work. The Imitation Game tells the story of Alan Turing, a singular genius on a par with Einstein and Tesla. Our modern world lacks such men because they lacked the vision of Edison, who saw that genius could be harnessed for profit. Any potential Turings or Teslas are…
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The King’s Speech
The King’s Speech has received various awards and nominations, including twelve Academy Award nominations (the highest number of nominations in 2011), seven Golden Globe nominations, fourteen BAFTA nominations and wins from various critics’ circles. –Wikipedia I was expecting The King’s Speech to be a good movie, and I am often disappointed by movies I think will be good. Not this time. The King’s Speech was great. It’s an almost literal fairy tale of a Price who becomes a King through no real desire or action of his own. First his father, played by Sir Michael-Dumbledore-Gambon, goes a bit mad and…