This month Garry Kasparov, best know for not beating Big Blue in a game of chess, will take on the Internet in a match expected to last all summer. Five pre-teen chess prodigies will coordinate the concerted effort to thwart Kasparovs plans for world domination. Internet users at all skill levels will band together to vote on countermoves to those issued by the Grandmaster (not related to Grand Wizard). After Kasparov makes his first move, the Internet team will have 24 hours to post their move, resulting in one move per day until there is a winner or Kasparovs brain finally melts.I foresee these events propagating wildly in the near future, possibly even evolving into a sort of intellectual Olympics where Nations compete in contests ranging from tic-tac-toe to solving the next big unsolvable Fermats equation. Of course I am not suggesting that the Internet will stray from its primary objective of trafficing spam and porn, but with projects such as SETI at home drawing half a million people to lend their computing cycles in the name of science, we could very well be heading in the right direction.
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