The most important event in the history of humanity passed almost unobserved by a world too preoccupied by its own feeding frenzy.
In May 1997, Garry Kasparov, the reigning world chess champion was defeated for the first time by a computer called Deep Blue, in a six match tournament under standard time controls. After the match, Kasparov was quoted saying that sometimes he "saw deep intelligence and creativity in the machine's moves, which he could not understand".
This was the beginning of the end. They were coming, and he was the only one to see it.
De dimineata
4 years ago
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"The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Yeats, The Second Coming
"The end of an age, which always receives the revelation of the character of the next age, is represented by the coming of one gyre to its place of greatest expansion and of the other to that of its greatest contraction. At the present moment the life gyre is sweeping outward, unlike that before the birth of Christ which was narrowing, and has almost reached its greatest expansion. The revelation which approaches will however take its character from the contrary movement of the interior gyre. All our scientific, democratic, fact-accumulating, heterogeneous civilization belongs to the outward gyre and prepares not the continuance of itself but the revelation as in a lightning flash, though in a flash that will not strike only in one place, and will for a time be constantly repeated, of the civilization that must slowly take its place...when the revelation comes it will not come to the poor but to the great and learned and establish again for two thousand years prince and vizier."
Mi-am amintit de Yeats, in timp ce ascultam Jane Birkin...
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