Fictional Timeline
- 1950: Cobb Anderson born
- 1980s and 1990s: Massive unemployment due to the population bulge of the Baby Boomers
- 1995: Stanley Hilary "Stay-Hi" Mooney Jr. born; Anderson's self-replicating robots, known as "boppers", colonize the Moon
- 2001: Ralph Numbers leads revolt of the boppers
- 2010: Collapse of Social Security; in response to riots, federal government turns over the state of Florida to the elderly
- 2020: Events of Software
- 2022: Humans take over Disky, boppers' lunar city, renaming it Einstein
- 2027: Anti-Chimera Act passed in reaction to the California dog-people scandal
- 2030-2031: Events of Wetware
- 2031: Manchile, the first robot-built human, is planted in the womb of Della Taze by Ken Doll.
- 2051-2053: Events of Freeware
- 2054: Events of Realware
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