MAITREYA PREDICTIONS

Master: A history-professor tried to teach me, that “war is the father of all important things and changes”. I could not accept this then, still cannot now. But sometimes it seems true. For instance the first computer was invented, in and because of the Second World War.”

Student: “How did that come to be, Master?”

Master: “The communication in and between the armed forces and diplomatic messages during the war, were all encoded. All participants had their own code. The Japanese used the Imperial code and the Germans used the Enigma-machine. The Japanese code was broken by the Americans, the British broke Enigma. This was a very complex encoding-machine. The typed text was transformed into a chaotic and undecipherable whole. By means of this Enigma machine a text or order was broadcasted, which British technicians heard, noted but would never comprehend. The Germans felt safe about their code-system, all through the war and kept using it, even though the British intelligence had long since broken Enigma.”

Student: “Master, how did the British succeed in

breaking the code?”

Master: “The British got lucky or they bribed an U-boat captain, anyway a German submarine beached on the British coast and it had an Enigma-machine on board. But mainly it was the work of a mathematical genius, Alan Turin. He found a way to process the data far beyond human capabilities. This was the birth of the computer, who could manage the billions of probabilities the Enigma-machine was capable of. The Americans used Turin's potential as well.”

Student: “Sorry to say, Master, I never heard of this Alan Turin.”

Master: “Few have, he is long forgotten. During the war, winning it was the most important. Differences between people did not exist and British, French, Indians and even some Dutch were committed to this goal.

After the war, things changed. The Cold War started and rigid norms took over. Turin was a homosexual, which was no problem in the war-years, but it suddenly became a issue. Alan Turin was accused of sodomy, which was punishable by law and our war-hero would probably been send to jail. Turin could not handle this. He poisoned an apple, took a bite and died. A briljant mathematician disappeared into history.”

Student: “What a tragic fate, Master. His work is still of extreme importance.”

Master: “Some say, that on the computers made by Apple, Alan Turin is still honoured by the apple, of which a part is bitten off.”