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Like Jennifer Odem's sculpture of tables standing sentinel on the banks of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, guarding against the threat of post-Katrina floodwaters and rising up against adversity, we too have the ability to act affirmatively and affect positive change.
But it's not enough to know what we're against.
I went to class, sat down, took my Kenyan history notes, and there I was, down Kenyan coastal town, with the great Mekatilili wa Menza, the Giriama woman who led her people against British colonial rule.
Earlier that year, I played what is called simultaneous exhibition against 32 of the world's best chess-playing machines in Hamburg, Germany.
Just 12 years later, I was fighting for my life against just one computer in a match called by the cover of "Newsweek" "The Brain's Last Stand."
John Henry, called the steel-driving man in the 19th century African American folk legend, was pitted in a race against a steam-powered hammer bashing a tunnel through mountain rock.
We are in a race against the machines, in a fight or even in a war.
In the most famous human-machine competition since John Henry, I played two matches against the IBM supercomputer, Deep Blue.
When I first met Deep Blue in 1996 in February, I had been the world champion for more than 10 years, and I had played 182 world championship games and hundreds of games against other top players in other competitions.
While licking my wounds, I got a lot of inspiration from my battles against Deep Blue.
My idea came to life in 1998 under the name of Advanced Chess when I played this human-plus-machine competition against another elite player.
Vainglory carries a mirror, and Lorenzetti warns us against narcissistic leaders who are guided by their own ego and vanity.
And this causes something of a problem, because ... the process that we all use to make stuff, it actually has a very strong bias against surprising ideas.
For years, I had constantly measured myself against images that looked nothing like me.
And basically what that means is that you act against your true nature because you're constantly trying to live up to other people's expectations or deny their assumptions.
And at the same time, they can be the shields against the threats to our soul, threats to our identity.
Now, I'm not against glass.
The firm Ennead clad the Utah Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City in copper and zinc, ores that have been mined in the area for 150 years and that also camouflage the building against the ochre hills so that you have a natural history museum that reflects the region's natural history.
But the phone will ring or the mail will come and then against all odds, you'll get your sense of humor about yourself back.
Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't choose, wouldn't we want to use that understanding and protect against the way that that happens?
And that would involve two things: one would be protecting against the timelines that we don't want to be experiencing, the thoughts that we wouldn't want to be happening, so that when that ding happens, not having the ding that sends us away; and the second would be empowering us to live out the timeline that we want.
In September of this year, a federal court ruled it lawful for a company to discriminate against hiring an employee based on if she or he wears dreadlocks.
"Warning: will not protect against drowning."
And when people say to me, "There's a backlash against refugees," what I say to them is, "No, there's a polarization, and at the moment, those who are fearful are making more noise than those who are proud."
I worry that people will self-censor in fear of being ostracized by society, or that people will lose their jobs because of their waning attention or emotional instability, or because they're contemplating collective action against their employers.
Instead, we should be focusing on securing rights and remedies against the misuse of our information.
If people had the right to decide how their information was shared, and more importantly, have legal redress if their information was misused against them, say to discriminate against them in an employment setting or in health care or education, this would go a long way to build trust.
There were demonstrations just down the street from our house all the time, students protesting against the military government.
So in the nerdy way that we have operated Partners in Health, we wrote a book against, basically, the World Bank.
That's why most countries have vaccines that defend against the disease in its deadliest forms.
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