In 1949 George Orwell portrays a chilling world in which computers are used by large bureaucracies to monitor and enslave the population in his book 1984.

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The year is 1976.
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Kurzweil Computer Products introduces the Kurzweil reading machine,
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the first print to speech reading machine for the blind.

1997
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Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion, in a regulation tournament.