&gt; But some of the world’s biggest nerds are confident that machines will meet their Waterloo on the pixelated battlefields of the computer strategy game StarCraft.<p>Er .... sorry, but Waterloo was a decisive battle that lead to the dismissal of a pan european empire. I don&#x27;t think we will see the end of the &quot;machines&quot; any time soon. A better comparison would have been Austerlitz (but then it isn&#x27;t much celebrated in the Anglo-Saxon world).