Synopsis

In a society saturated with neural implants granting instant access to all knowledge, Ryan Unger is an anomaly, considered by many to be intellectually deficient. A childhood brain injury prevents him from accessing the Stream – the vast electronic repository of human understanding – leaving him to labor with books, a quaint and largely obsolete practice. But when a virus emerges within the Stream, its relentless influx of data proving fatal by overloading the human brain, Ryan alone possesses t