In a quiet corner of Japan in the early 1990s, a humble engineer named Masahiro Hara came up with something that changed the world.

Masahiro worked at Denso Wave, an automotive company, and was fond of playing Go, an ancient board game with black and white stones that is extremely popular in East Asia.

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