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đŸ‘¶ The Baby Market of 2988 “Where children are no longer born. They are selected.”

🧬 2988: When Parenting Became Programming In the year 2988, humanity had finally decoupled reproduction from randomness. Thanks to the revolutionary biotech app "GenomaX", having a child was now a purchase, not a pregnancy. No pain. No surprise. Just pure choice. With a few taps, couples could now: Design a child’s appearance, IQ, emotions, and even career tendencies Simulate what their child would look like at age 1, 5, 15, and 30 Choose between over 12 million templates, or create a fully customized Genetic Blueprint Birth was obsolete. Parenting began in the cloud.

By Razu Islam – Lifestyle & Futuristic WriterPublished 10 months ago ‱ 3 min read
đŸ‘¶ The Baby Market of 2988
“Where children are no longer born. They are selected.”
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đŸ“± How GenomaX Worked

Available globally through secure quantum-networks, the GenomaX Baby Design App had three simple steps:

Select Base Template

– You could start with your own DNA or pick from idealized global models.

Customize Features

– Eye color, empathy level, energy patterns, language capabilities, humor type, risk tolerance, emotional response modes, even “future resilience”.

Simulate & Approve

– A 3D AI-generated preview would show the child interacting with you at different ages in virtual reality.

Once approved, the blueprint was sent to a BioWomb Lab, where the child would be grown in an artificial womb with zero physical birth trauma.

In 9 months (or accelerated options in 3), your child would be ready for onboarding.

🎓 Pre-Installed Skills

Children didn’t cry in 2988.

They were born with embedded neural pathways for:

3 spoken languages

Basic emotional regulation

Night-time sleep training

Select cultural knowledge

A child could be delivered already knowing how to say “I love you” in 4 languages, or recite a poem if the parent selected the Artistic Add-On Pack.

Optional plug-ins included:

STEM Prodigy Mode

Athletic Excellence

Musical Mindset

Environmental Empathy Pack

💾 How Much Did a Baby Cost?

It depended.

Basic Baby (Ethical Design, No Enhancements) – 40,000 Global Units

Designer Baby (Custom personality & high IQ) – 180,000 GUs

Elite Legacy Child (Max upgrades, public status) – 1.2 million GUs

Some parents took loans. Others were sponsored by corporations, especially if the child was designed for future innovation.

Yes, companies now invested in babies.

🛑 But What About Real Birth?

Natural birth was still allowed, but rare.

Only 2% of global births in 2988 were traditional.

Most of those occurred in Faith Zones—regions that rejected genetic programming on religious grounds.

But even there, children faced difficulty in elite education or employment because they were considered “Untuned.”

Some cruelly called them:

“Wild Borns”

đŸ€– Nanny AI and Parenting 2.0

Once the child was delivered, Parenting AI took over.

These were smart, evolving assistants who guided:

Emotional growth

Discipline styles

Nutrition and sleep patterns

Holographic learning modules

Some parents only spent 4 hours a week with their child.

The rest was monitored by the NannyBot Cloud, ensuring no trauma, no screaming, and no developmental delays.

💔 The Dark Side of Baby Design

Not all was perfect.

Some parents kept upgrading their children’s personalities mid-childhood, creating Identity Instability Syndrome (IIS)

Others returned their children to GenomaX within the 3-year adjustment window, labeling them as “incompatible”

A black market emerged: "Black Baby Packs"—illegal ultra-aggressive children designed for underground games and combat rings

One famous case involved a couple who designed a child to be “emotionless and highly logical”—the child later sued the parents for “conscious design abuse”.

👁 Do Children Still Have Free Will?

That question burned inside ethicists and philosophers.

If you designed a child to love music, and they didn’t—was it their fault?

Or yours?

And if every child was perfect, would imperfection be outlawed?

One child, Liri-88, publicly said:

“I am not a person. I am my mother’s idea.”

It shook the world.

đŸŒ± A New Rebellion Begins

In secret digital circles, some teenagers began reverse-engineering their DNA.

They deleted pre-installed personality modes.

They corrupted “Success Prediction” codes.

They started to live authentically broken lives—messy, chaotic, real.

They called themselves:

The Born Again

They weren’t anti-technology.

They were pro-choice—from inside the system.

🌌 The Future of Childhood

In 2988, humanity didn’t wait for nature anymore.

They built the future, baby by baby, line by line.

And yet, deep inside every child's quantum soul


A question remained:

“If you made me perfect, why don’t I feel whole?”

Because even in a perfect world,

some feelings can’t be programmed.

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About the Creator

Razu Islam – Lifestyle & Futuristic Writer

✍ I'm Md Razu Islam — a storyteller exploring future lifestyles, digital trends, and self-growth. With 8+ years in digital marketing, I blend creativity and tech in every article.

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