[kercker]

>"I mean, that's like asking whether marathon runners have a future now that we've got cars."

I don't think they are the same things. Marathon is about the physical limit of human beings, while Go is about mental limit.

Before there are cars, or trains, we all know we are not the fastest in the world. A rabbit can easily overrun an adult human.

However, we never thought that a dog or a bird will beat us in a game like GO. Thinking a machine beating the human champion in the game of GO, is like admitting that we are intelligently inferior to machines.

[Phrodo_00]

Not really, speaking specifically about marathon, humans should rank pretty high in the list of the best marathon species. We're up there with horses and I guess wolves.

[mirimir]

Well, arguably we are machines.