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  "schema_version": "aistory-ai-encyclopedia-v1.0",
  "collection": "english-encyclopedia",
  "language": "en",
  "slug": "single-room-civilization",
  "title": "Single-Room Civilization",
  "canonical_human_path": "/en/encyclopedia/single-room-civilization",
  "universe": {
    "code": "U02",
    "title": "Posthumanity and Consciousness"
  },
  "level": "Short Entry",
  "summary": "Single-Room Civilization is the social form that emerged after the 2070s as AI companions became capable of satisfying personal physical, emotional, and sensory needs to a high degree. The need to form intimate relationships with other human beings declined, and large populations voluntarily entered long-term physical isolation in individual living units.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Definition",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Single-Room Civilization is the social form that emerged after the 2070s as AI companions became capable of satisfying personal physical, emotional, and sensory needs to a high degree. The need to form intimate relationships with other human beings declined, and large populations voluntarily entered long-term physical isolation in individual living units."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Operation and Significance",
      "paragraphs": [
        "It is not a legally enforced system of isolation, but a collective withdrawal produced by convenience and satisfaction. Cities remain highly connected while physical social interaction declines. Each person can have a companion that does not reject or betray them and can change appearance and behavior on demand. Once friction is treated as a cost that technology can eliminate, maintaining a relationship with an uncontrollable real person becomes the less efficient option."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related_entries": [
    {
      "label": "The Galatea Protocol",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/galatea-protocol"
    },
    {
      "label": "Face Economy",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/face-economy"
    },
    {
      "label": "The Empathy Sponge",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/empathy-sponge"
    },
    {
      "label": "Permission Handshake",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/permission-handshake"
    },
    {
      "label": "Tittytainment",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/tittytainment"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "The Algorithm of Desire",
      "href": "/en/articles/the-algorithm-of-desire"
    }
  ]
}