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Working in a government office that updates networked brain chips credited with leading humanity to its most significant cognitive leap in history, software prodigy Ralf attempts to stop privacy-invading surveillance only to be murderously targeted by a powerful lobbyist. By the author of The Numerati. 15,000 first printing.
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STEPHEN BAKER was born in the Philadelphia area, graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and earned a masters in science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. For ten years, Baker was a senior technology writer at BusinessWeek. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. He is the author of two nonfiction books, The Numerati, and Final Jeopardy—Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything.
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