《One Plus One Equals Eleven 》作者：- G. C. Edmondson【EPUB】

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Author: Edmondson, G.C. Title: One Plus One Equals Eleven Magazine: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 01/1973 (Volume 90, No. 5) Version history: v1.0: .tif converted and proofed on 26/06/2006. Some shading along centre spine in original scan, particularly on left-hand pages; a few obvious words have been assumed. Blurb Even though they’ve been called “thinking machines”, computers can’t think. At least, not on the human level. But, there are some forms of human endeavor that don’t require thinking—on the human level. * * * Text begins * * * It has been remarked that a machine does not have interesting thoughts. Conservatives would say a machine has no thoughts at all. The same could probably be said for many humans. When I was first summoned to psychoanalyze a sick computer nobody had the temerity to put it in those terms. In the first place, I am not a psychiatrist. I am an engineer. And this was just another job. Like automobiles and like human beings, computers blow an occasional fuse. That’s when I climb out of my business suit, get into my white coveralls, and start checking circuits. Despite scare stories about Taking Over (Has anyone noticed how computers have supplanted the Catholics, the Jews, and Daddy Warbucks?) they really aren’t very smart. Though 2001 ’s berserk HAL showed amazingly human instincts for self-preservation, the central time-sharing complex I had to fix couldn’t have cared less how many white-coveralled technicians invaded it to perform solemn auguries over transistors. No doors slammed behind me; no unexplained heavy objects fell near me, if one excepts my thermos bottle which caused a momentary complication