Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by PorterDuff on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:10PM (#20854907)

No offense to Obama, but I expect he'll be merely a Jeopardy question in 100 years. Memorable people tend to come from memorable times.

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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by pimmen on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:23AM (#20857133)

I think the 2008 Recession will be just as memorable as the Vietnam War or the fall of the Soviet Union. It has amplified a lot of problems that we will probably still struggle with in the future.

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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by PorterDuff on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:27PM (#20868209)

In the long run? Just another one I think, and smaller than many.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...

(I guess that wikipedia is good for something)

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