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| Book: Alan Turing (Hourly History); Movie poster: The Imitation Game |
What does it mean to be a visionary?
You definitely have to go beyond the current thought patterns. But more importantly, you have to elevate yourself to another level of thought - a whole new way of thinking.
That's what Alan Turing did when he went about trying to crack the Enigma machine decryption. He knew that he had to beat a system, and he visualised the entire mechanism months before he started building it, and years before he actually completed it and cracked it, all the while going more by his own convictions, in the face of opposition from his team as well as his superiors.
Maybe that is what Einstein meant when he said that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them... or in this case, encountered them.
The book talks about Turing's story in a tragic manner, and the movie does great justice to what Turing goes through during and after solving the problem, and then, after so many more years post the World War too.
Awe-inspiring story, told in a beautiful, awe-inspiring way.
Ratings:
3.5 stars of 5 for the book, and 4 stars of 5 for the movie.
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