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The publisher assumes no re- DEPARTMENTS sponsibility for unsolicited ma- terial. All stories printed in EDITORIAL 4 this magazine are fiction, and any similarity betwee'n charac- by Frederik Pohl ters and actual persons is coincidental. FORECAST 194 Printed in the U. S. A. By The Guinn Co., Inc. N Y. Cover by EMSH from GRANDMOTHER EARTH Title Reg. U. S. Pat. Off THE PAPER TIGER 'IXThen the New York City sub- Headless Horseman” and the * ’ way system purchased a subway officials term “the Auto- modified and rather rudimentary mated Train” it seems pretty computer and installed it in the clear that there’s a way still to cab of one of its subway trains, go. The automated train was, the operating union took an ex- to begin with, given the simplest tremely dim view of it. 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No ob- Name , ; ligation. A non- profit organiza- Address- tion. Address : City Srribtf L.E.W. State— 5 — and jams on the brakes . while more than two hundred years. It the standby human motorman began with the steam textile mills scowls into a dark future with his in England; it grew with the in- hands in his pockets. troduction of the cotton gin in Why is the standby motorman the South. It came to a head a there? To take over in case of third of a century ago in what emergency, says the union. To was then called “rationalization” provide a means of testing and — or sometimes, “the assembly studying the equipment, says the line” — and indeed it did lead to company. But in fact he is there serious stress, playing a part in for only one reason — because the cause and prolongation of if the subway system hadn’t the Great Depression. agreed to employ him there the Automation is only a part of a employees would have gone out larger process — the continuing on strike, feeling, with much growth of techniques to increase logic, that the time to deal with the productivity of the individual a threat is before it gets too big worker. Granted that this has to handle. over the last couple of centuries abolished tens of millions of jobs. uestion is, how big is the Can you imagine anyone apply- Q threat going to get? And ing for any of those jobs today? more important — when is it go- There are simply some jobs ing to happen? that are too boring, too arduous, It is our opinion — admitted- too pointless for a human being ly backed by nothing much in the to do. These are the jobs that way of a guarantee, because we automation is out to get, just as don’t expect to be around long its predecessors have got the jobs enough to be called on it — that of picking the seeds out of cot- the worst fears of the opponents ton bolls and running a loom with of automation will never be real- a foot-treadle. ized because (a) the great dis- If it hadn’t been for previous astrous upsurge in unemploy- similar developments, a lot of us ment simply won’t happen and would have been doing those (b) anyway, most of it has hap- jobs today. Those jobs are gone pened already! For the tendency so those of us who would have to develop ways for two men to had them are, in a sense unem- do what used to be ten men’s ployed. work is not something that was And frankly — we’re doing invented with automation. It has pretty well out of it, aren’t we? been going on for something —FREDERIK POHL 6 GALAXY GRANDMOTHER EARTH by j. t. mcintosh ILLUSTRATED BY FINLAY Old Earth was dying, and neither courage nor strength could save it . but perhaps vanity could! I was in itself intriguing. There were scarcely any strangers any /'"'vne after another the girls in more. There were so few people bikinis and stripsuits on the left that everybody knew nearly beach at Cannes raised their everybody else. heads and preened themselves as The Americas, Asia, Australia the tall, bronzed stranger strode and Africa were all empty, save past along the waterline. They for a few determined hermits. could have saved themselves the The Pyramids, Sydney Bridge, trouble. He didn’t even glance the Grand Canyon and Red at them. Square no longer drew throngs That he should be a stranger of gaping, camera-clicking tour- 7 ists — although they were all anything worth doing, he’s dead. still there, only Sydney Bridge A woman lasts longer because to and Red Square showing signs of the end a certain desire for ad- neglect.