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,
Deep Blue (musician) Deep Blue (musician) Deep Blue is the alias of electronic and drum and bass musician, Sean O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe started producing music in 1991 with the hardcore band 2 Bad Mice, co-writing their hit, "Bombscare". In 1993 he began to write and release under the alias Deep Blue, producing "Helicopter Tune" (also heard in the PSP and PlayStation 2 game "GTA Liberty City Stories" in 2006 and in the game "Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition" in 2005) for the Moving Shadow record label. The track reached number 68 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1994. In 1997, Deep Blue was