[hinkley]

Every time this conversation comes up, I'm reminded of a world-building subplot in one of Vernor Vinge's first books. Instead of banning computers in chess, let the competitor use a computer that they built themselves, so it's one augmented human versus another augmented human.

In his world, there were no supercomputers elsewhere, so you didn't have to worry about covert channels phoning home to a much bigger computer. I suppose you could put everyone in a Faraday cage...

[loneranger_11x]

which book is this? and would you recommend?

[hinkley]

I'm fairly sure it's The Peace War, which has a sequel (Marooned in Realtime) where the concept of The Technology Singularity in introduced.

I get a little salty about Ray Kurzweil getting the credit for a concept that Vernor Vinge had already published in 1986.