Master of None

Newspaper reports of friendly signals from a moon of Jupiter set off both small‑town curiosity and high‑level scrambling in Washington; ordinary people react with baffled wonder while officials search for a single responder with an unusually broad education. A personnel officer uses exhaustive files and early computer sorting to try to identify a true generalist, and the story moves between comic portraits of public reaction and bureaucratic procedure, satirizing rigid specialization and highlighting the awkward necessity of a versatile mind for handling unprecedented contact.