Childhood, Youth and Education

Prim and fundamental traditionalist baselines often have natural birth and childhood phases, sometimes with relatively low-tech assistance.

Some nearbaseline children are raised in 'crèche' type conditions - there's no place safer and more beneficial for them than in the Corp/Angelnet/Transapient Powers care - but many are allowed to learn social and technical skills at a natural pace.

On the other hand many children (both crèche raised and those raised in family environments) have accelerated learning treatment (tachydidaxy) at an early age, which often will have a break for an extended period coinciding with physical childhood/young adulthood to allow for character development.

In some societies the later period of "further tachydidaxy" is voluntary, and many young adults drop out, some joining the various countercultures such as the "Andromeda Kids". Also some variants exist where the kids are left to struggle to grow up basically on their own, and when more tech workers are needed the physically mature ones are selected by remotes, and are subjected to specialised mnemonic treatment for specific circumstances. This method is often employed in NoCoZo tier III societies.

The less advanced zones near the Periphery often only have partial uploaded mnemonic overlays available which involve competent people transferring some of their knowledge (mental, not physical), skill and personality to the youth, but these have been superseded in the inner sphere and middle regions by omniuploads.

In advanced societies young nearbaselines, augmented humans, superiors and transhumans can receive various omniuploads allowing for much more rapid maturity and integrated mental and physical skill acquisition. Advanced omniuploads do not modify the personality of the recipient, although this modification is available as an option.

Many augmented or transingular entities have hybrid biological/aioid bodies, and may have extended childhoods lasting hundreds of standard years to allow character development. This childhood may be in real life, or as a simulation. Simulated childhoods are favoured in the Cyberian Network.

Real life extended childhood may be spent in a childhood reserve, like Tir Na Nog in Dabih Major (Keter Dominion) where the children maintain a society similar to a 3rd century (Interplanetary Age) Earth nation/syndicate. These children and young adults may maintain this level of development for several decades or longer before ascending at adulthood.

Yet other entities have their childhood in virtual simulations and are engenerated into new bodies (where necessary). The earliest bioengenerators now have (mostly) been replaced with pico-fidelity devices, which can construct a living version of a virtual entity in less than an hour, complete with continuity of identity.

Aioid entities can be developed with operating system, memory and programs intact, fully cognisant, knowing everything e needed to know from the nanosecond e was activated, or may be required to develop an entirely new character and set of experiences from scratch, with a formative period of the equivalent of 2000 years in a hyper-accelerated virch sim university. These entities can sometimes be designed in advance by high or very high singularity archailects.

Of course, nano- and pico-assembly being what it is, once the big thinker in question comes up with a usefully trained SI:3 worker ey can simply use that mind as a template and spin off as many copies as ey wants, more efficiently than training each one separately from the start.

Multiple physical copies of ready trained experts are produced extensively in the Metasoft Aioid Empire and elsewhere.