Are you ready for The Singularity? When will you become one with your computer? Who will you be when the coming technology becomes you?
Set in the future that is just around the corner, Inner Circle is an oddly familiar story of the unintended consequences of human ingenuity and innovation. A borderline hermit and blatant neurotic, Bill Bowens is enticed into a bizarre mission of liberation by a misfit band of technology whizzes. Instead of spending his hours shut up among his books, he is dragged into the oddest of treasure hunts through the damp and dark of an unnamed city in the Pacific Northwest. He unwillingly and unwittingly becomes his new comrades' puzzle solving guide in their pursuit to reclaim a breakthrough technology, one that purports to merge the internet with the human brain. Or is he really their lab rat? Is it all just in his head?
Inner Circle may be a fable about The Singularity gone awry, but it is also a cautionary tale about getting far more than we wish from technology.