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If artificial intelligence can solve the world’s problems – are we ready to give up control?

At the end of the 21st century, Londoner Galahad Singh works as a quaestor. His job is to find people who have disappeared – of which there are many, since climate change has triggered mass migration and innovative technologies like the holonet and mind-uploading have made it possible to change your own identity as easily as a pair of shoes. Singh is hired to find the brilliant software developer Juliette Perrotte, who developed encryption for so-called cogits: digital brains with whose help you can upload yourself into other bodies. It soon turns out that Perrotte was in contact with a brilliant programmer and together, they were on the trail of a major secret. The programmer seems to have kidnapped Perrotte. The deeper Singh dives into the story, the more he comes to doubt that his opponent is human…