Personal Narrative: The Central Bureau Of Breeding

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2458. The Central Bureau of Breeding celebrates its newest addition, an AI specialized in reading genetics. The process will be faster now. And 100% accurate. The people of the CBB welcomed the change, others despise it. They’ve despised change for fifteen years, ever since the CBB’s founding with one sole purpose; “to perfect the human race.”
Back then, we had hoped, our city was filled with people tainted with genetic disease, and the news of a branch focused on changing this was welcomed, a little too warmly. They quickly rose to power. Their first action was a worldwide reading of our genes.

I woke in the night, which was abnormal since “The perfect human sleeps like clockwork.” I listened to see if I could hear what woke me, all I heard

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