“In 1997 an IBM computer called Deep Blue defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and unlike its predecessors, it did not just evaluate trillions of moves by brute force but was fitted with strategies that intelligently responded to patterns in the game. Newsweek called the match The Brains Last Stand. Kasparov called the outcome, the end of mankind.”

—Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, 2002.