Two best friends create a computer that can predict the future. But what they cant predict is how it will tear their friendshipand societyapart.
If you had the chance to look one year into the future, would you?
For Ben Boyce and Adhi Chaudry, the answer is unequivocally yes. And theyre betting everything that youll say yes, too. Welcome to The Future: a computer that connects to the internet one year from now, so you can see who youll be dating, where youll be working, even whether or not youll be alive in the year to come. By forming a startup to deliver this revolutionary technology to the world, Ben and Adhi have made their wildest, most impossible dream a reality. Once Silicon Valley outsiders, theyre now its hottest commodity.
The device can predict everything perfectlyfrom stock market spikes and sports scores to political scandals and corporate takeoversallowing them to chase down success and fame while staying one step ahead of the competition. But the future their device foretells is not the bright one they imagined.
Ambition. Greed. Jealousy. And, perhaps, an apocalypse. The question is . . . can they stop it?
Told through emails, texts, transcripts, and blog posts, this bleeding-edge tech thriller chronicles the costs of innovation and asks how far youd go to protect the ones you loveeven from themselves.