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When a computer beat every person for Time's top honor

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Humanity peaked in 1982 when Time magazine looked at all of our global achievements and gave the award to a beige box. By naming the PC 'Machine of the Year' instead of 'Person of the Year,' they correctly predicted that humans would soon take a backseat to silicon chips that beat us at chess and steal our graphic design jobs.

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