kasparov has a typically interesting piece in the current new york review of books (2/11/10), called "the chess master & the computer." nice.

Here is the article

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592

Excellent reading! Thank you! 

Yes, thanks, that was very interesting. I found this paragraph especially thought provoking:

"This is our last chess metaphor, then—a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every year we have new chess programs, and new versions of old ones, that are all based on the same basic programming concepts for picking a move by searching through millions of possibilities that were developed in the 1960s and 1970s."