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In the age of Deep Blue, do young chess prodigies have a future?
by carbocation 11y ago
In the age of Deep Blue, do young chess prodigies have a future?
- daveguy 11y agoSomeone should ask Magnus Carlsen. Edit: fortunately the fine article brings this up and goes further to point out that go is fundamental to self improvement in some cultures and will likely have a long life after AlphaGo.
- zhemao 11y agoIn the age of Watson, does Jeopardy have a future?
- JorgeGT 11y ago[13th century] In the age of gunpowder, do young archery prodigies have a future?
- daveguy 11y agoThis is a good one. It was still many many centuries later before it stopped being a tool in war and from a competitive prospect it is still kickin (although not pervasive)
- verroq 11y agoIn the age of high tech robot replacements, do unskilled factory workers have a future?
- hemdawgz 11y agoThis one unfortunately isn't analogous with the others.
- iopq 11y agoThey actually do not.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoThe analogy only works if people do the particular activity for pleasure, so the question becomes... is it possible to find pleasure in factory work? One could argue that it's possible, but it may look different to what it does today. Some people may enjoy the feeling of refined manual dexterity, so games could emerge where activities like packing boxes at speed becomes a sport, in a similar vein to how cup stacking is a sport now.