《I Know You Got Soul_ Machines With That 》作者：- Clarkson_ Jere

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I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something Introduction I suppose the inspiration for this book came from my reaction to the Concorde crash in Paris. Normally when a plane goes down we mourn for the people on board, but on this occasion I found myself mourning, most of all, the death of the machine. How could something so wondrous and dazzling have come to grief? It really was as shocking as the death, just down the road, in fact, of Princess Diana. The fact is that most machines are just a collection of wires and plastic. The computer, for instance, on which I’ve written this book has no more of a heart than a Toyota Corolla, which in turn is no more soulful than a Corby trouser press. But some machines do have a soul. Sometimes, as is the case with Concorde and the AK47, it’s because they possess that most human of qualities, a flaw, and sometimes it’s because they were born carrying the genetic fingerprint of a foolish and