EPISODE · May 13, 2026 · 14 MIN
Introduction - Two Long Games
from The Convergence · host Robert Eberhard
Squash and artificial intelligence share an unlikely origin story, both born in England in the 1830s, both slow to reveal their full potential, and both arriving at 2022 at opposite ends of their respective arcs. The introduction traces squash's remarkable two-century journey from a school corridor in Harrow to a genuinely global sport, one that produces world champions on every continent and has finally earned its place at the 2028 Olympics, while quietly losing courts, participants, and cultural relevance in the decades it spent ignoring every major technological wave. In parallel, it traces AI's seventy-year path from a mathematician's dream to a technology that one hundred million people adopted in two months. The argument is simple: for the first time in history, the tools exist to do what no governing body or marketing campaign ever could for squash, and this book is the story of how both long games finally converge.
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Squash and artificial intelligence share an unlikely origin story, both born in England in the 1830s, both slow to reveal their full potential, and both arriving at 2022 at opposite ends of their respective arcs. The introduction traces squash's remarkable two-century journey from a school corridor in Harrow to a genuinely global sport, one that produces world champions on every continent and has finally earned its place at the 2028 Olympics, while quietly losing courts, participants, and cultural relevance in the decades it spent ignoring every major technological wave. In parallel, it traces AI's seventy-year path from a mathematician's dream to a technology that one hundred million people adopted in two months. The argument is simple: for the first time in history, the tools exist to do what no governing body or marketing campaign ever could for squash, and this book is the story of how both long games finally converge.
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