[hypfer]

I mean I would too be concerned if such a major event _wouldn't_ make people question their assumptions/beliefs/ideas/visions.

If you have no reaction at all, you probably weren't paying attention.

Eventually though, people _should_ recover and return after having processed the changes. So maybe the professor was still recovering at the time?

[ihaveajob]

It's possible. At that time people were talking about Go as the next frontier (that didn't last long). IMO, the game is the same, and for 99.9999% of folks who ever play it, whether a computer can beat the best human is irrelevant in how fun it is to play.