No machine, however complex and accurate, could reflect truly the human factors in a problem of social import. For such functions it possessed the fatal weakness of being non-human. Hence the integration of people _and_ atomo-electrical brains. Thanks to their collars the human factors received the replies of the machine-brains through mental impulses instead of on plasti-tape. By means of the buttons before them they could key their questions to the portion of the machine desired. For specific requests and interkeying with one another they used, respectively, a small throat microphone attached to their collars and direct oral communication. Janet was the analyst of the team--it was a detail job, a memory job, one which usually went to a woman. And she was good. She culled from the messages given her by the machine those which bore most directly upon the problem. _Assam--vegetarian culture--grain husks unused for plastics because of blight-weakness following second A-war--could serve as fifth-depth foundation for second-run non-moving byways.... Patagonia first-line producer of non-weakened grain husks--transportation limited by seasonal deep-frost--atomic heat considered uneconomical for this problem--transportation limited to third-class surface vehicles--_ Ray checked the stream of information selected by Janet. _Seek possibility of using synthetic mesh on temporary laydown basis._... Ray was team coordinator, who assembled the facts selected by Janet, put them in shape toward solution of the problem. Then it was Lynne's turn. In a way, save that all three of them were vital to team-success, she was top-dog. It was up to her to listen to Janet's stream of information, to follow Ray's assembly job, to say, "This will work," or, "This will not work," or perhaps, "This will work if we do such-and-such, rather than thus-and-so." There weren't many who could fill this job of synthesizer without too-wide variance from the judgments of the machine itself. Consequently there weren't very many teams actually at work--perhaps a score, give or take a few, at any one time. Such synthesization demanded a quality almost akin to intuition--but intuition disciplined and controlled to give results as often as needed. She concentrated now, though her head was troubling her again, keying her whole being to Janet, then to Ray. And to her horror she began to get a picture--not of the problem of using waste matter to abet highway construction in Assam without disrupting the climate-limited transportation of Patagonia, but of the thoughts and feelings of Janet Downes.