PAINFULLY REDUNDANT
(The age of Artifical Intelligence is now upon us. Automatic machines already do many things that only humans could do before …and just think about the medical applications!)
Werner Lackmann was a dapper little man who enjoyed his work as an experienced Pain Diagnosis Technician. He was of course, also a masochist, an essential requirement for a person whose job it was to experience the pain of others and use his expertise to locate the source, and probable cause, of the relevant affliction.
Since the invention of the technique, which involved being brain coupled to a particular patient with a relevant problem, rare people like him had suddenly found themselves in great demand. He was the senior technical assistant to a famous neurosurgeon named Clive Pemberton-Jones
