
Alan Turing alive and celebrated, and (probably consequently) technology is as far advanced as that known in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

It’s England in 1982, but a very different 1982 from the one with which most readers are familiar. Machines Like Me is the seventeenth novel by award/prize-winning British author, Ian McEwan. Nothing deep or predictive that could give psychoanalysis or economics a good name.” Freud, behaviourism, cognitive psychology. The mind in science has been little more than a fashion parade. But so far, science has had nothing but trouble understanding the mind.

“We learned a lot about the brain, trying to imitate it.

A fascinating read, highly topical and incredibly thought-provoking.
