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Unspecialist, by Murray F. Yaco
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Title: Unspecialist
Author: Murray F. Yaco
Release Date: November 11, 2007 [EBook #23443]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, October, 1959. Extensive research did not reveal any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
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UNSPECIALIST
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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!"
Banner dropped the receiver and let it dangle. He sank into the only soft chair in the apartment a