Short story, essay 10

Jaquelyn Hernandez

IST

11/4/12

Short Story, Essay 10

            In this short story “A Logic Named Joe” by Murray Leinster is a short story about a man nicked-named Ducky. He describes how computers, or logics, are involved in human lives. He describes how logics have changed civilization by giving people immediate information about anything and everything. However, much of this information is very bad. People begin researching on how to kill their wife’s or how to become sober unhealthily.

            It was predictable to see that computers/logics would be used to find negative information or would upload a person’s information without authorization from that person. In Ducky’s case, his computer cased his security. Ducky had gotten married and had children; however, his ex-girlfriend (who was married four times and shot one of her husbands) remembered Ducky from when they were together. She looked on her logic to find Ducky.

            As soon as she found Ducky though her computer, she immediately began to pressure him into getting married to her. Ducky was not willing to marry her and end up shot like one of her earlier husbands. It was very unpredictable as to what he was going to do next. He took his logic/computer and switched it with someone else’s logic/computer so that his ex-girlfriend would be unable to contact him or his wife. Ducky went home and put his logic where he would never need to use it.

                        It is unbelievable how well the story from the 1940’s was so on top of how computers work today. Ducky was basically using a webcam to talk to his ex-girlfriend when she called him though the computer. He was able to see her hotel room and see her ‘keeping her self cool’. The logics where even able to give him information about his neighbors and their personal information. The people from the 1940’s had amazing insight