Inventor day (2025)

The person in the photo is Alan Turing. I found him smiling, and I found it interesting to discover an image like this of him. It attracts my attention because we all have rather the mental image of an inventor like this:

And it’s curious, because we usually think of inventors as people who explore a world – that of mathematics, physics, or astronomy – but actually, they all explore a world of this reality, and they come up with something that society recognizes as a patent, a discovery, a paper.

I find it, at least, interesting to see how there seem to be fewer and fewer inventors, or maybe not fewer, but the same amount as always.

In the world of software I’m currently exploring, and it’s said that technology is advancing very fast, and it’s getting faster and faster, but the deeper I go, the more I realize that its steps aren’t advancing so fast: rather they’re coming together and multiplying exponentially.

The way we talk about the history of the past gives the feeling that in the present, that ambition to discover new things has been curbed. Maybe we just haven’t been looking at it carefully enough. Maybe the time in which those things happened wasn’t as fast as we imagined.

Anyway, the people who seem like that are now using their fruits in the form of blogs, short videos, long videos, and other forms of shared expression.