Hell, why not go back to the Mechanical Turk of 1770? Never mind that it was a scam, people *thought* they were playing a machine, and isn't that what really counts?
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I mean, a “scam,” it really was a brilliant piece of engineering being operated by a person who was a truly brilliant chess player, able to play a game on a board he couldn’t really see, whilst uncomfortably hiding in a cabinet
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Also, it didn’t have a video display.
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