#VendrediLecture uchronique : « Turing’s institute drove forward AI and computational biology. He said he wasn’t interested in becoming richer than he already was. Hundreds of prominent scientists followed his example on open-source publication which would lead, in 1987, to the collapse of the journals ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’. He was much criticised for that. Others said that his work had created tens of thousands of jobs around the world in diverse fields – computer graphics, particle accelerators, protein folding, smart electricity distribution, defence, space exploration. No one could guess the end of such a list. » — Ian McEwan, “Machines like Me”