On Reading Day, however, concerns are raised about George's ability to be Educated. George Platen is determined to be a Computer Programmer, a profession in demand, and he hopes to qualify for "export" to a top-flight Outworld. To stay on Earth is almost an admission of failure. The best of the Educated people compete in professional "Olympics" in the hope of being "bought" by an advanced Outworld. Each person's professional speciality is dictated by an analysis of his or her brain, with no choices allowed to the subject. People in this future society are taught to read at the age of eight and then Educated at the age of eighteen. Besides educating its own people this way, Earth also supplies educated professionals to other planets, the Outworlds. This system is similar to the BrainCap, a concept later explored by Arthur C. The author presents a centralized Earth society of the sixty-sixth century, in which children are educated by almost instantaneous direct computer/brain interface, a process known as taping. The story first appeared in the July 1957 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and was the lead story in the 1959 collection Nine Tomorrows. " Profession" is a science fiction novella by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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When young Oakley was five, her father became an invalid after being caught in a winter blizzard he died a year later at the age of thirty-three. Difficult early yearsīorn Phoebe Anne Moses (her last name has also been recorded as Mosey, Mauzy, or Mozee) in rural Ohio in 1860, Oakley lived in poverty and suffered much hardship early in As a part of the notorious Wild West Show, she became renowned as a western hero even though she had never lived in the West. She performed her feats in stage shows around the world, but her real fame came from her performances in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Speeding around an arena on horseback or on a bicycle, Oakley could hit targets. She could shoot a moving target behind her back while looking at the reflection in a knife blade. From thirty feet, her bullet could split a playing card-held with the thin side facing her-in two. 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