Who Is Paul Proteus?
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Dr Paul Proteus lives in the city of Ilium, N.Y. The city is divided into three major parts: The northwest is occupied by the managers and engineers, in the northeast there is a large industrial plant, quite a large city itself, and in the south, across the river, there is the town for ordinary people, who are the rough majority. He is employed in the Illium Industrial Plant as a general manager. His only work is to rule the factory so that its productivity still increases and so that there are no saboteurs. All the other is controlled by computers. He is a married, thirty five years old, tall and thin man of darkish skin. His father was a celebrated founder of the local industrial plant and its first general manager. All Pauls career
is before him, waiting for him. He is an aspirant for a better job – he might grow up in the hierarchy of the American industry – be offered the seat of general manager of the state industrial division. His wife Anite relies on him and she still keeps