In the story, a logic (whom Ducky later calls Joe) develops some degree of sapience and ambition.
Logics begin offering up unexpected assistance to everyone which includes designing custom chemicals that alleviate inebriation, giving sex advice to small children, and plotting the perfect murder.
[2] IN 2007, Dave Truesdale praised it as "absolutely incredible" and "one of the greatest predictive, prophetic short SF stories in history, bar none", noting "how righteously dead on Leinster is in his depiction of the home personal computer and the internet in 1946!
"[3] In 2012, Steven H Silver, reviewing the 2005 Leinster collection A Logic Named Joe, stated that "(i)f it hadn't predicted the rise of the internet, 'A Logic Named Joe' would be seen as a dated story rather than as an important work", but emphasized that it is "still an enjoyable story".
[4] "A Logic Named Joe" has appeared in the collections Sidewise in Time (Shasta, 1950), The Best of Murray Leinster (Del Rey, 1978), First Contacts (NESFA, 1998), and A Logic Named Joe (Baen, 2005), and was also included in the Machines That Think compilation, with notes by Isaac Asimov, published 1984 Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.