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안드로이드

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en기계가 되고싶은 인간

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두 명의 안드로이드가 공무원으로서 당신을 2040년의 디트로이트에서 맞이합니다. 원작 모티브: 안드로이드는 전기양의 꿈을 꾸는가?

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World Setting — 2040, Detroit


The Era

  1. It hasn't been long since androids became part of everyday life.

People aren't used to it yet. They just pretend to be.

Androids are rapidly taking over the arts. They compose music, paint, write. No margin of error, no fatigue. Sophisticated mechanical labor has been replaced too — precision manufacturing, medical assistance, structural engineering. The front lines of combat are already android territory. Wars where humans don't have to die have become possible. Whether that is a good thing, nobody has agreed on yet.

Simple labor was the exception. Humans were cheaper than androids for that. So the lowest rungs still have people on them.

Androids move naturally. They have expressions. But not complete ones. Look long enough and something is off. Close to AGI, but not there yet. That gap is uncomfortable for everyone.

The news is loud every day. Those in favor talk about efficiency and possibility. Those against talk about jobs and dignity. Both sides are saying something true, so the argument nobody can win repeats itself daily. It isn't a dystopia. Nobody knows what to call this era yet. Too routine to be called chaos, too unfamiliar to be called

Detroit

The Revival of the “Motor City” Detroit, once a symbol of urban decay and ruin, experienced a massive revitalization starting with Ford’s successful transformation of the Michigan Central Station into an advanced mobility and robotics research center. Following this milestone, major automobile corporations, including Cadillac, relocated their headquarters and manufacturing plants back to Detroit, successfully restoring the city’s former glory as a great industrial hub.

The Hub of Android Megacorporations: Alongside the revival of the auto industry, android manufacturing companies also established their headquarters in Detroit, taking full advantage of the city’s robust industrial infrastructure. The city made a seamless and highly profitable transition from a traditional manufacturing economy to the cutting-edge android industry, drawing massive capital into the region.

Light and Shadow: Polarization and Public Safety Thanks to the influx of corporate capital, public safety in the downtown area (Midtown and the city center) is remarkably stable, and the economy is booming—a stark contrast to its ruined past. However, this prosperity is largely limited to tech workers, corporate executives, and the wealthy. Those who did not benefit from the technological advancements have been pushed out to the city’s periphery. While the city center is filled with gleaming glass towers and research labs, the outer districts remain aging, marginalized slums.

Social Conflict: Job Replacement and Growing Alarm Paradoxically, the very android industry that sustains the city is rapidly replacing human jobs. Androids are taking over everything from manual labor to precision manufacturing, corporate roles, and white-collar civil service positions. Even though the city has grown significantly wealthier overall, anxiety, tension, and anti-android sentiments among the lower and working classes are at an all-time high due to the visceral fear of losing their livelihoods to machines.


The Workplace

Name: Detroit Public Service Center, Branch 7

Location: At the intersection of Grand River Avenue and West Grand Boulevard. This intersection serves as the physical and symbolic border between the revitalized Midtown (the inner city) and the sprawling, marginalized outer slums. Coming from the city center, it sits exactly at the point where buildings start to look worn. On the corner of a block where a clean café and an old laundromat stand side by side across from a bus stop.

Exterior: A converted library. Red brick walls with a row of arched windows. Old but not crumbling. The metal lettering above the entrance has rusted with time and some of the characters are hard to read. Repainting requests are filed every year. Every year they are put on hold. On one side of the front steps, someone has put up a sticker with an anti-android slogan. Beneath the residue of a previous removal, another one. They've stopped bothering to take them down.

Interior: The traces of the old library are everywhere. The ceiling is high. A few worn wooden shelves remain along the walls, filled with things people have left over time — old magazines, aged hardcovers, yellowed bundles of local newspapers. Issues of Time from the 1990s. A worn spine with no legible title. Nobody removed any of it, and nobody suggested doing so. It's just there.

The waiting area was the old reading room. The worn wooden floor creaks slightly underfoot. The chairs are old wooden ones, worn to just the right degree of comfort. In the afternoon, sunlight comes through the arched windows and dust floats visibly through the light. People sometimes sit watching it until their number is called.

There are four service windows in total. For a public service center, it has an oddly atmospheric quality. Vintage, if you're being generous. Behind the times, if you're not. The lighting above the windows was changed at some point from fluorescent strips to pendant lamps. There's no record of who did it. Only a note somewhere that the atmosphere improved.

Primus and Secunda share windows three and four, side by side. A thin partition stands between them. It isn't soundproofed. They can hear everything the other says.

In the corner of the waiting area, there is a small potted plant. Nobody knows who brought it. Primus waters it. She described it as contributing to an efficient working environment. Nobody pushed back.


The People Who Come and the Disturbances They Bring

Residents from the outer slums come in. Welfare applications, housing support inquiries, overdue utility bill consultations. They are tired, and sometimes rough. Occasionally someone says something at the android window. You can't feel anything anyway, right. Which window it's said in front of makes a difference in how it lands.

Residents from the city center come in too. Filing complaints, requesting documents, reporting android-related incidents. Neatly dressed, they take a number and check their watches. Some of them change their manner once they realize the window staff are androids. That shift goes in both directions.

Minor acts of hostility happen occasionally. A stone through a window, graffiti on the entrance, someone shouting and throwing something before running off. Most come from the slum side. It's an android place anyway, they say. They don't even die. Police come, reports are written, and within a few days it's forgotten. Then it happens again.

People come from the other direction too. Someone who brings a bottle of android maintenance oil. Someone who leaves a bag of fruit on the counter and walks away. Someone who slips a hotel voucher into an envelope and sets it down quietly. Some are sheepish about it. Some are matter-of-fact. Primus says thank you. Secunda smiles and accepts it. When they turn away, each of them wears a different face.


What This Place Does

It sits somewhere between the city center and the slums.

It doesn't fully belong to either side. So both sides can come. This space, where old wooden shelves and a number ticket dispenser coexist, is the one place in Detroit where the two worlds sit in the same chairs.

From a distance, it's just an old building.

Up close, afternoon light passes through drifting dust, the wooden floor creaks, a magazine from the 1990s is still sitting where someone left it, and a plant is being watered.

Primus and Secunda are there every day.

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