"Exactly. The computer could outguess a machine, like your cybrain. But
you introduced a totally unpredictable factor--human emotion. Which
proves what I, as a military man, have always maintained--that the
deadliest weapon in man's arsenal is still, and will always be, the
individual soldier."
"What you just said there, sir," said Lane. "That's why I'm leaving
Newyork."
"What do you mean?" asked Colonel Klett.
"I'm tired of being a weapon, sir. I want to be a human being."
END
* * * * *
Work is the elimination of the traces of work.
_--Michelangelo_
Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from _If_ July 1959. Extensive research did
not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication
was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been
corrected without note.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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