Today in 1996, Deep Blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion, Garry Kasparov, under regular time controls.

“As technology continues to advance in the second half of the chessboard, taking on jobs and tasks that used to belong only to human workers, one can imagine a time in the future when more and more jobs are more cheaply done by machines than humans.”–Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAffee, “Why workers are losing the war against machines,” The Atlantic Monthly, October 2011