Set-set

A set-set is a person who has been raised via set-set training. The training process begins at or before birth and is adhered to strictly for the first several years of the child's life. It can have surgical, pharmacological, and educational components. Traditionally, the child is connected to a virtual-reality interface immediately after birth and brought up in a virtual environment of multidimensional datasets rather than the material world. Training follows one of several inflexible protocols, to prevent unpredictable results caused by deviation.

Outcomes of training

Set-sets develop very limited ability with traditional motor functions and will often be incapable of walking for the rest of their lives. They also do not learn to use traditional senses, relying instead on any cameras or sensors they have network access to. However, set-sets instead develop extreme fluency with datasets of all kinds, accessed via the virtual world. Set-sets far exceed non-set-sets in economic modeling, data science, mathematics, computational sociology, predictive psychology, and many other informational domains. The work of set-sets is foundational to modern society, not least by enabling the complex routing of the car transit network.

Set-sets have a Gordian set that is fixed, or 'set', into one state. Their personality traits never change after reaching adulthood. Also, all set-sets trained under the same protocol exhibit significant mental similarity.

However, set-sets self-report levels of life satisfaction comparable to those of non set-sets. Opposition to set-set training is rare among set-sets.

History

The practise of raising set-sets goes back to the early twenty-third century. Both the training of set-sets and Nurturism have been well-established for centuries. Nurturism, the political stance that set-set training is unethical and/or a form of child abuse, grew in popularity until set-set training was almost banned in the Romanovan Senate. However, in 2238 the Utopian Hive conducted the Indefinite Stasis, a 3-week strike that paralyzed the global economy. The legality of raising set-sets was maintained. Historians consider this to be a pivotal moment in cultural acceptance of set-set training. Nevertheless, the topic is highly controversial to this day.