> But some of the world’s biggest nerds are confident that machines will meet their Waterloo on the pixelated battlefields of the computer strategy game StarCra

> But some of the world’s biggest nerds are confident that machines will meet their Waterloo on the pixelated battlefields of the computer strategy game StarCraft. Er .... sorry, but Waterloo was a decisive battle that lead to the dismissal of a pan european empire. I don't think we will see the end of the "machines" any time soon. A better comparison would have been Austerlitz (but then it isn't much celebrated in the Anglo-Saxon world).