Alan Turing had the great fortune to be born in an age where he could get funding for a machine that no one understood or really believed would work. He had the great misfortune of being born into an age that thought who he had sex with was more important than his work. The Imitation Game tells the story of Alan Turing, a singular genius on a par with Einstein and Tesla. Our modern world lacks such men because they lacked the vision of Edison, who saw that genius could be harnessed for profit. Any potential Turings or Teslas are…