In the near future, a device called the Univiz that can seamlessly switch between augmented and virtual reality has revolutionized how people interact with the world and each other. It's inventor, Oreste Pax, is now the head of the largest company in the world, but he is facing a shareholder revolt. Pax¿s only hope for keeping control of his company lies with a new project he hopes will do for human cognition what the Univiz did for personal computing.However, unbeknownst to Pax, a brilliant sociopath called the Mechanic has unleashed a world-wide computer virus that is well on its way to tearing apart the fragile bonds holding human society together. Pax will soon be torn away from his concerns over his company¿s future by a mysterious society attempting to fight the virus with a quantum computer they call the Infinet. Pax will have to make a decision that will affect the future of the human race, and the choice of what to do is his, and his alone.