Ray Kurzweil control over the flow of information. In the book, Kurzweil also extrapolated preexisting trends in the improvement of computer chess software performance to predict that computers would beat the best human players "by the year 2000". In May 1997, chess World Champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM's Deep Blue computer in a well-publicized chess match. Perhaps most significantly, Kurzweil foresaw the explosive growth in worldwide Internet use that began in the 1990s. At the time of the publication of "The Age of Intelligent Machines", there were only 2.6 million Internet users in the world, and the medium was unreliable,
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World of "Make You Better", stating "The band has never lacked the musical bona fides to write a great anthem." The album debuted at No. 7 on the "Billboard" 200 albums chart on its release, selling around 50,000 copies in the United States in its first week. It also debuted at No. 2 on "Billboard"'s Top Rock Albums, and No. 1 on the Folk Albums chart. The album has sold 123,000 copies in the United States as of October 2015. All songs written by Colin Meloy. According to the liner notes of "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World". What