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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ If one could invent (or draw out of some infinite account) values created by populations yet to be born---fictional people, which might include robots and simulations---those populations have a real effect on our present. What \e{space} do they live in? If they're fictional, how can we feel their presence here and now? Or if they are far away, even in the future, how can we feel their impingement, as if they were next to us? They exert mysterious influences through myths and interest rates, like the gravitational perturbations coming at us from past and future, annunciating the presence of an unseen planet or star. We search for them. They can be found by indirect methods; relating population to space, converting the numbers of those-yet-to-suffer into space, time and people. This is done by the art of studying population pressures in the present, for new populations are being unleashed upon our planet, teleported to us, backward in time, emerging through the central processing units of financial institutions. -Segmented demographics\fnote{Studies of populations in abstracted, discontiguous home territories; stacked up, perceived, recorded, retrievable, quite as if they were in some mass memory; memorialized particle-clusters, when networked, make their territories contiguous while lack of communications-access makes the land of the poor quite separated} allow us to play new games with the location of populations, to move them from place to place, even into invented countries. For example the Nielsen rating's {\bf A} country, {\bf B} country, {\bf C} country.\fnote{There is a {\bf D} country but that is discounted. Dante also had an {\bf A}, {\bf B}, and {\bf C} country and, although he didn't write about it, a {\bf D} country; for Dante never wrote about the poor and the ordinary.} People in {\bf A} country can be scattered all over the world; they don't even have to live in proximity. +Segmented demographics\fnote{Studies of populations in abstracted, discontiguous home territories; stacked up, perceived, recorded, retrievable, quite as if they were in some mass memory; memorialized particle-clusters, when networked, make their territories contiguous while lack of communications-access makes the land of the poor quite separated.} allow us to play new games with the location of populations, to move them from place to place, even into invented countries. For example the Nielsen rating's {\bf A} country, {\bf B} country, {\bf C} country.\fnote{There is a {\bf D} country but that is discounted. Dante also had an {\bf A}, {\bf B}, and {\bf C} country and, although he didn't write about it, a {\bf D} country; for Dante never wrote about the poor and the ordinary.} People in {\bf A} country can be scattered all over the world; they don't even have to live in proximity. How were these populations put into these demographies? If we have totalled up real people---hungering, sweating, copulating---then we need real geography, at least at some point in time\ld\ perhaps in the past. With the advent of the need for targeted, reachable populations, demographic regions were invented, related, classified, archtypalized along buying\slash class\slash income\slash taste\slash interest\slash communication lines. We see continents dissolve into an archipelago.\fnote{Dante preferred to stack them in cones and concentric, high-velocity circles.} All nations have---at least as far as some of their populations who live in transnational space---dissolved. |