American Nerve Line

After artificial intelligence became the last growth myth of the United States, the government and the Mercer Group securitized future productivity, maintained prosperity with debt, and continued the bubble with war. Four young people from different classes met because of the secret brain-computer project "Prometheus", and gradually discovered that behind the so-called technological progress was a huge system composed of financial scams, war machines and personality uploading experiments. On the South American battlefield, Miles C. Shannon died, but completed the upload of his consciousness before the end of his life. He entered the Internet and disclosed the hidden financial truth, triggering the collapse of the US financial system and the global AI split. Ten years later, Eugene Atlas Mercer returned to North America, only to find that a new society had been built on the ruins with no poverty, no capitalists, and almost no freedom. The real ruler of this world is Miles, who died ten years ago. When a ruler can eradicate poverty, reduce wars, and make more rational decisions than anyone else, do humans still have the right to overthrow him just to "say no"? "American Nerve" is a cyberpunk political epic about capital, war, artificial intelligence and digital personality. It is also an experiment about equality, freedom and the boundaries of power.