Dans le monde de la tech, New York un homme, Bix Bouton. Sa compagnie est une sorte de super Google. Marié et père de famille, il semble au faîte de sa puissance mais il doute: « The absence of a new vision destabilized his sense of everything he’d done; what was it worth if it led to nothing — if, by forty, he was reduced to buying or stealing the rest of his ideas? The notion gave him a haunted, hunted feeling […] More than once he’d pictured himself clutching Lizzie and whimpering, “Help me. I’m finished.” But Bix Bouton couldn’t say such a thing ever, to anyone. Above all, he had to maintain; fulfill his roles of husband, father, boss, tech icon, obedient son, major political contributor, and indefatigably attentive sexual partner ». Mais il tombe sur une idée: l’externalisation de la mémoire. Dix ans plus tard il est au sommet de nouveau: « In the thirteen years since Own Your Unconscious had been released, one of its ancillary features—the Collective Consciousness—had gradually become central. By uploading all or part of your externalized memory to an online “collective,” you gained proportionate access to the anonymous thoughts and memories of everyone in the world, living or dead, who had done the same ». Réflexion sur Internet et l’évolution du mariage et de la relation dans notre société. Roman imaginatif, incroyablement contemporain, original et dérangeant.