Everybody chooses Hitler, even the great minds at :trueanon:
reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/10vjhva/if_you_could_go_back_in_time_and_could_off_one/
But that has to be a waste right? Great Man Theory, dialectical materialism, blah blah
Germany still would've became fascist because of their overwhelming debt to the victors of WWI. They most certainly still would have started World War II in some way. They almost certainly would've also started genociding the disabled, and probably move on the non-Aryans eventually, or at the very least thrown them all in prisons or some internment zone
Allen Turing
on the one hand, he won't be able to break the German codes which probably leads to a more drawn out and deadly WWII. Axis powers still loose. This isn't History Channel -- the Nazis we not on the "verge of greatness" or about to develop atomic weaponry or any of that nonsense yer da is fascinated by.
on the other hand, the timeline for general purpose computers gets shunted back a few decades (maybe even a century...?) -- what does the cold war look like without ARPANET? How does the end of the 20th century play out? How does this change mathematics and physics?
fuck off, poor bloke had it bad enough already. I'm killing the rozzer that put together the case against him for being gay
thinking a lil more, Turing living until the 70s/80s could mean way fancier computers, which means maybe, just maybe, fuckin Cybersyn works out :allende-rhetoric: (please don't ask me how a fancy woodgrain computer could defeat the CIA)
yeah, he did have it rough. I just can't help but wonder what history would look like without his contributions -- he's the hingiest hing-point I can think of.
never mind Turing, how about Alexander Graham Bell? what if we got computers but no Internet?
(Okay I know the needs of the system were such that the multiple people were working on the problem of telephony independently, but he was a piece of shit anyway)