David Deutsch - The Greatest Inventor

Imagine if we could speak to Turing now. Someone who ushered in an entire multi-billion dollar industry of technology, radically transforming civilisation. Imagine if Einstein was still alive and we could further question him about disrupting the foundations of physics. And let's throw in Karl Popper of course, who like Darwin utterly overturned the entire field he was working in by explaining knowledge was no longer about parochial beliefs. So I say this is why I'm fascinated by the work of David Deutsch because he has aspects of all of those people. Like Turing, Deutsch has actually transformed a billion dollar industry. He laid the foundations of the field of quantum computation and this is why he won the breakthrough prize