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Near-future satire about a government innovation programme where citizens below the median are invited to participate directly in progress.
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A citizen is told they are not a test subject but a “frontier participant” in a national innovation programme. Progress needs data - and the most useful data comes from people, specifically those tha make up the less fortunate half.