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Man vs. Machine You may have watched the 90-minute documentary "AlphaGo" that recounts how a computer program plays a 3,000-year-old Chinese board game with the renowned GO champion Lee Sedol in a battle of wits between man and machine. During the film, Sedol discusses how he heard of celebrations in the streets that he, a human, won one of the match's five games against the machine. The documentary records a weeklong tournament that is surprisingly dramatic and intriguing. T

Do you remember a game show called Password? Two teams of two — one celebrity on each team to make the whole thing even more attractive — competed to win by trying to guess a secret password, using only one-word clues. And remember using the phrase, "Open Sesame!" (initially used in Ali Baba's and the Forty Thieves' classic tale to open a magical cave) anytime we wished something would open for us automatically? Unfortunately, in this day and age, as we are all increasingly a