Albert is the last of the dolts. It shows during his entire development. He cannot write or do math so he makes machines to do it for him. At fifteen, he realizes he is afraid of girls, so he creates a machine, Little Danny, that looks like him but is smarter and less shy. Albert and Little Danny call on Alice. She ends up preferring Little Danny over Albert, so Albert pushes a self-destruct button, killing both of them. As an adult, he keeps creating machines – a dishonest trade – building up fame and fortune. Some of his devices help run the government, but those machines start looking down on their creator. In response, Albert tries to make a friend, Poor Charles, but it makes its own machine, which start looking down on it, too. Angry, Albert destroys both machines. He cannot figure out his hunch as to what went wrong, so he creates Hunchy, an awkwardly formed machine. His other, more intelligent, machines start expressing the belief that they can replace him as the leader. Late in life, Albert is presented with an award. He decides to abandon the speech his speech-writing machine prepared for him, giving a stuttering and incoherent speech of his own instead. His machines do damage control. That year, there is a census of the country, with the intention of including the “drifters and decrepits” usually missed. Albert is taken as one and taken in for questioning, asked to read and answer questions … all of which he cannot do without machines. His machines come and save him, mocking him as they do it. Albert is miserable; he wants to give up and take his life. Hunchy comes up and tells him they should have some fun. He tells Albert to look more closely at the world and Albert realizes that it is filled with six billion “patsies” and that they can take them down.