R.K. 1949-97

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. (Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie) The year is 1976. (Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie) Kurzweil Computer Products introduces the Kurzweil reading machine, (Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie) the first print to speech reading machine for the blind. 1997 (Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie) Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion, in a regulation tournament.