What if our civilization is more complex than we realize?

The New York Times bestselling writer of Daemon-“the cyberthriller against which others will be measured” -Web publishers Regular) -imagines a world where decades of technological advances have been suppressed in order to prevent disruptive change.

Are smartphones really humanity’s most crucial innovation since the moon landings? Or can something else explain why the vibrant visions from the 20th century-fusion power, hereditary about Influx enhancements, artificial intelligence, treatments for common diseases, extended human existence, and a bunch of additional world-changing advances-have continued to be beyond our grasp? Why has the high-tech potential that appeared imminent in the 1960s didn’t arrive?

Perhaps it did arrive…but only for a select few.

Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they’ve been functioning toward for a long time: a device that can reflect gravity. Their analysis will revolutionize the field of physics-the crowning accomplishment of a profession. Grady expects wide-spread acclaim for his whole group. The Nobel Award. Instead, his lab is certainly locked down with a shadowy firm whose mission is normally to prevent at all costs the public upheaval sudden technological advances bring. This Bureau of Technology Control uses the advanced systems they have harvested over the decades to fulfill their mission.

They you live inside our future.

Presented with the chance to join the BTC and improve his personal technology in secret, Grady balks, and it is instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison created to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined collectively, can Grady and his fellow prisoners get pregnant of a way to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age?

And when they do, can you really defeat an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a hundred years in the building?