Flipping through a few more pages, Chu Bamboo's expression changed again. He realized the person recording the events was once again Lin Xin Bamboo.
"Uncle Chu has gone to Mars again. You should understand the situation! So I'll be the one to continue the record from here on out..."
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"It is the first year of the twenty-second century, and human civilization is as prosperous as ever!
Although the birth rate plummeted due to Genetic Modification policies... our national productivity is more than sufficient to support state-sponsored child-rearing!
Thus, we can synthesize sperm and eggs, create babies in artificial wombs, and have them raised by the state.
The younger generations no longer need to accommodate each other through marriage and childbirth. All they have to do is make a donation... before undergoing Genetic Modification!
Earth's population has now surpassed fifteen billion! As an aside, genetically modified individuals make up ninety percent of that number...
