[adrian_b]

Yes, "X oversold" is a poor choice of words for cases like Turing or Einstein.

The contributions of people like Turing and Einstein were as important as they are claimed to be, they are not oversold.

On the other hand, I am also very annoyed that the majority of people have some idea about the importance of Turing or Einstein, but they are completely unaware that there were many other contemporaneous scientists whose contributions were equally important and neither Turing nor Einstein nor any of their many peers could have created their own original work without using the work of the others.

These myths about the singular geniuses are reflected in the stupid laws about the so-called "intellectual property".

There exists no new "intellectual property" that does not incorporate 99% of old "intellectual property", but this is not handled correctly in patent claims or in fair use conditions.

If the current laws about patents and copyrights would have been applied during the initial evolution of the electronics and computer industries, they would have never progressed to the level of today.