“Profession” (1957)
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“Profession” (1957)
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#2super, I read it in Russian when I was a kid
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#3Sounds stupid, but that's one of the reasons I'm working in software dev. Thanks, Isaac.
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#4"There are ten thousand men like you, George, who support the advancing technology of fifteen hundred worlds. We can’t allow ourselves to miss one recruit to that number or waste our efforts on one member who doesn’t measure up."
From Nine Tomorrows, as a final year student I remember reading this line from the short story prior to exams and relaxing for just a moment.
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#5Such a wonderful story! There is so much emphasis on brilliant execution in software (and startups), but creativity is not celebrated enough. As with this story, it's not necessarily bad or good, but it is this way.
"You made this? That's cool bro, but how can we create a business out of it?"
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#6One of the things I love about Asimov, is that no matter how much of his stuff I read, there's always something new out there.
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#7I've always loved this story. Reading it now, though, it's funny that it was written by the guy most famous for his robot stories. They seem like a pretty glaring omission. If you could program the job skills and knowledge onto a human brain, why not a positronic one? All the non-creative jobs would just end up being automated.
Which is basically the situation we're heading towards now in any case. Pretty prescient, I suppose.
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#8Perhaps the story explains why so many people succeed greatly that don't finish college?
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#9thank you!
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#10One of the things I love about Asimov, is that no matter how much of his stuff I read, there's always something new out there.
Indeed. I was initially surprised I hadn't read this one before, but then when you remember how much he wrote there's no way I've read even a tenth of his stories. So I really shouldn't be surprised at all.