Transcriber’s Note:
This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, January, 1960. Extensive research did not reveal any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained.
UNSPECIALIST
A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job ... provided he hasn’t been especially trained to be a machine.
BY MURRAY F. YACO
Banner ripped open his orders, read them, stared in disbelief for a quick moment, then cursed wildly while reaching for the telephone.
“Hello, Gastonia? Yes, I got ’em. What kinda way to waste our time you lunkheads think ... oh, it’s you, colonel!”