[lbo-talk] The struggle over science

[ravi]

Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4172504.stm
> 
> The struggle over science 
> 
> I used to get mad at the way it was left to America to bring to full
> fruition fine achievements by Britain's scientists, inventors and
> engineers. Take Alexander Fleming's penicillin, Frank Whittle's jet
> engine, Alan Turing's computer and Robert Watson Watt's radar.
> t
> All these breakthroughs...

 >

this is a very shallow understanding of the history. the [personal] 
computer is not turing's invention any more than its von neumann's. and 
it is not uniquely (and i would venture, predominantly) british. if one 
has to speak in terms of breakthroughs, then the history includes more 
than just turing's ideas (or von neumann's for that matter).

	--ravi