Vitali Vitaliev looks at the human side of technology in a new regular column. YOSIPH VISSARIONOVICH Jugashvili, aka the infamous Soviet dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin, in one of his speeches referred to writers as "engineers of human souls". For all his misanthropy and cruelty, Stalin was a fluent writer and a good stylist capable of coming up with precise and memorable cliches. 'Engineers of human souls' is one of them, albeit in this new 'After All...' column we'll try to forget about its sinister Stalinist connotation. Instead, we'll be talking about purely human - as opposed to strictly technical - aspects of the engineering profession, for engineers, after all, are, first and foremost, human beings (or "human souls", if you wish) and therefore not immune to normal human emotions: happiness, sadness, worry, anger, and so on.
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