A recent TED Talk by Shyam Sankar (also the subject of this recent blog post by Leslie Pagel) nicely argues that man-machine cooperation is the real story of technological development. In a 2010 article, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who famously played IBM's Deep Blue in the late 1980s, relays a wonderful anecdote illustrating the power of this symbiosis between humans and computers. In 2005, a freestyle chess tournament was held where....