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.Or the fat woman who had the words ‘think thin’ played back all day just below the audible level.It must have worked because three months later there’s a stop-order.Of course, you’re all so grand and well adjusted that you won’t need to program such things.And all those would-be poets.Why are they so laughable? You all pinion your friends and make them listen to your sonnets.At least the dead poets only bored themselves!” She knew that the frustration and anger in her voice were not for the class alone but for her own personal situation.But she’d started to let go all those pent-up feelings.“And I’d just love to be around when someone, a hundred years from now, starts auditing your files.I wonder what will be risible to him.”The smirks had faded from some faces, but Clas Heineman’s smile remained as fixed as the glittering eyes he focused on her.“And for all your scholastic honors, I don’t think you’ve realized just what all these so-funny incidents show.”“Since you’re so acute, suppose you tell the rest of us obtuse clowns.” Heineman’s voice was deadly now and Nora was suddenly as scared as she’d been when she confronted her father and insisted on her student rights.“The subtle change of fear and suspicion of his neighbors to fear and suspicion of the computer-based society: then a gradual acceptance of computer-assistance.We all started with records beginning in 1990 when the main Comp banks were switched on in this Metropolis, so you should all see what I mean.By mid-century I noticed a definite drop in the incidence of recorded paranoia, and the incidence and repetition of psycho-chem therapy.It’s noticeable because people begin inputting the most deeply intimate secrets.They’ve realized that no one can break a privacy seal.until we come along with our sophomoric mentalities.”“Oh, come now, Nora,” a girl said from the back of the room, “so much of it’s pretty damned dull.” But she sounded embarrassed.“I don’t agree.I think it’s fascinating to watch a saner mental outlook emerge.”“Thank you for the lecture, Miss Fenn,” Larry Asher said with a jeer.“Thank you, indeed, Miss Fenn,” repeated a deep voice.The entire class swiveled about, startled.In the doorway stood the substantial figure of Research Scholar Siffert.The students leapt to their feet.“Thank you, class.Remain standing, Fenn.”She felt the hopeful aura of the class as they watched Master Siffert approaching her.She felt utterly miserable, but she held her chin up and her shoulders back.She was damned if she’d let anyone see her change state.The Scholar closed the distance between them, with each step looming more and more forbiddingly.He isn’t at all like Father, she told herself, halfheartedly.She steeled herself to look him in the eye and then realized that Master Siffert was by no means grim.His lined face was suddenly cut by an enormous grin.He seized Nora by the shoulder and turned her toward the expectant students, one arm proprietarily draped over her shoulder.“Nora Fenn has just earned a scholarship bonus of three hundred luxury credits, and a distinctive honors scholastic credit.”There was an astonished mass gasp.Nora closed her mouth with a snap when she realized that her jaw had dropped open.Three hundred l.c.’s? He couldn’t possibly mean that! And a d.h.? What on earth had she done?“We will dismiss the rest of you from today’s auditing.I do not believe that you would be able to keep your mind on your work after Fenn’s astute summation.And then, too, you will need considerable time for the essay, the length of which I leave to your judgment,” and he swept the room with the stern glance, “on the psychological trends in personal programming in the early twenty-first century.I believe that most of you have penetrated the fifty-year mark of that era.Nora Fenn,” and he gave her a paternal hug, “has spared you what I imagine would have been an unwelcome surprise at term end when this essay normally would have been announced.You are dismissed.”The group rapidly dispersed [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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