Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher of Artificial Intelligence - working to create a machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions.

His experiments made him famous, but they also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists. In their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed - to be a participant in his own transcendence.

Their worst fears of his wife Evelyn and best friend Max Waters are realized as Will's thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.