Riassunto:
A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and
music-swapping Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the
management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's
doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the
system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive,
user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the
world. Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in
London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but
Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe. Instant wireless communication puts everyone in touch with
everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't
changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering
into Tribes held together by a common time zone, less than
family and more than nations. Art is working to humiliate the
Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a
world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted-not
happiness, not money, and most certainly not love. Which might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the
roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to
push a pencil into his brain....