Profession

Isaac Asimov

Sci-Fi

Asimov's 1957 novella set on an Earth of the sixty-sixth century where education is a direct brain download called taping and every eighteen-year-old is assigned a profession by brain analysis. George Platen, who dreams of being a Computer Programmer and emigrating to the Outworlds, is told his brain cannot be Educated and is sent to a House for the Feeble-Minded — where the story gradually reveals that the untappable are the creative few who invent the new knowledge everyone else is taped with.