Three tricky tangles with technology:<>When a worker at a bio-weapons lab becomes distracted by her relationship problems the fate of the human race hangs in the balance.<>A small island nation claims to have true democracy with every citizen voting on all major issues. But when a reporter investigates, the truth is stranger than she could have imagined.<>An expert gamer seems like the perfect pilot for a microscopic prototype submersible controlled through virtual reality. Until the connection becomes too real for the human mind to handle.