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Prompt: Discuss how the study of population demographics has been used in a real-world setting, including the effects of collecting and using these data.
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Cyberlife and the Development of Teaching Androids Via Population Demography
By: Gabriel Graham
After my mom Courtney Graham ousted my uncle was appointed as the CEO of Cyberlife in 2028 by her allies the company’s board of directors, she formally gave names to, even though they already existed created several new departments. One of these was the Surveillance and Mind-Control Population Demography department, a shared sub-group of both Marketing and Research & Development. I hate knowing all of this.
The aim of the Population Demography department is to manipulate the population forecast trends in demographics in order to better inform marketing campaigns and the development of new products. These strategies have helped to greatly increase Cyberlife’s profits, leading to it being well on the way to becoming a trillion-dollar company.
One specific trend orchestrated predicted by Cyberlife’s demographers was the baby boom of 2029. This led to the development of many products targeted at improving the lives of young families, including improvements in domestic androids’ child surveillance childcare programming, the development of some of the first nurse and midwife replacements healthcare androids, and the development of teaching androids.
In order to provide a field model for Cyberlife’s teaching androids, a private middle and high school were created and funded by the company. Several high-ranking employees including my mom, Noah’s dad, and some of the other Cyberlife directors and department heads sent their children to the school in order to encourage the public to blindly follow better trust in the idea. Members of the public were able to apply for their children to gain entrance into the school and had to give away a bunch of information about themselves to do so, which Cyberlife definitely kept somewhere, because apparently privacy laws just don’t apply to them. Some families were given priority admission due to being a minority in some demographic characteristic? Trait? grouping like how Amira and her brother got in because she’s deaf, and how Aiden got in because he’s a foster kid. Other families were admitted through a lottery system to fill the remaining available space.
Some of the newest domestic androids, such as Simon the PL600, produced record sales. Healthcare androids helped drastically lower the rates of complications in pregnancy and childbirth and if those papers weren’t so hard to get through, I would’ve read them and probably found something suspicious there, too. The biggest success was the android-run secondary schools probably because of bias in the selection process, which led to the opening of an android-run elementary school and the expansion of android use for teaching in schools across the country. The use of population demographics has enabled Cyberlife to create one of the most tax-inducing and union-avoiding successful and generation-shaping technologies. That means there’s androids in homes, stores, fire departments, schools, hospitals -- places where basically everyone goes. You can’t avoid them. Cyberlife’s even backing legislation against homeschooling. What’s next, the cops?