The Elusive Cure

The year is 1997. The world is celebrating the creation of the first true artificial intelligence computer system. Now, the most brilliant minds from around the globe have a powerful tool to solve previously insurmountable problems. However, amid this extraordinary breakthrough, disaster strikes. Thirty-six thousand of the world’s most creative geniuses are simultaneously struck with a terminal illness caused by the machines they so coveted. Overnight, the world is facing an insurmountable brain drain with no way to stop it. The clock is ticking. In five short years, the smartest people on the planet will die, a calamity sure to set back human progress for decades. Their only hope is to find a cure for this devastating disease.