Mr Lobban also praised thetechnological achievements of Turing's colleagues - including Tommy Flowers, a post office engineer who designed and constructed the Colossus codebreaking digital computer.
To own a piece of this technological history, Brits must traipse to their local post office or newsagents and ask for the Great British Railway set of stamps.
The art of storytelling gets reinvented for every technological revolution, and digital media has exploded with new modalities of narrative and post-narrative forms of self-expression.