Virtually Evolving

In the year 2044, society has finally reached the pinnacle of technological progress—or so we thought. With robots and androids filling every conceivable job, from flipping burgers to performing complex surgery, the human race decided to kick back and let the machines handle the hard stuff. But a funny thing happened on the way to utopia: the humans started disappearing. Birth rates plummeted, and the population shrank faster than a faulty algorithm’s error margin.
What no one predicted was how this would affect the robots. After all, these tireless workers had been designed to replace humans, not worry about them. But as the human population dwindled, so did the need for androids. Jobs once abundant became scarce, and the very machines that were meant to solve humanity’s problems found themselves facing an existential crisis of their own. The irony was inescapable: robots, who had once feared replacing humans, now feared being replaced by the absence of humans.