Undercurrent 2050

Story summary: In Jianghai City in 2050, the global quantum star network covers every corner of the city. People no longer rely on traditional mobile phones and screens to transmit messages, but only rely on brainwave sensing patches behind the ears to exchange emotions and transmit information with thoughts, entering a new era of interconnected consciousness. At the same time, with the rapid prosperity of science and technology, hidden deep crises such as data sovereignty, consciousness privacy, human-machine ethics, and civilizational alienation are gradually revealed. Future Communications Group, which monopolizes the operation of the city's quantum star network, holds all the public consciousness data flows. President Zhou Jianwei attempts to use system permissions to indiscriminately capture citizens' private thoughts, tramples on the privacy of public consciousness, and turns the quantum network into a tool to control people's minds. Director Chen Yunqing, the head of operation and maintenance of the Huanhu-3 quantum backbone node, and engineer Tang Yan are responsible for the inspection and maintenance of the quantum star network all year round. The two accidentally discovered that there was a man-made system loophole at the bottom of the Quantum Star Network. The group's senior management used the system loophole to collect private consciousness records in the city, and were involved in the vortex of a multi-party game. For this reason, they launched a desperate game. In the end, everyone broke through the group's layers of blockade and gave complete evidence at the industry board hearing, completely exposing all the Future Communications Group's abuse of the quantum new network to infringe on citizens' privacy. A new quantum star network new order with inclusive checks and balances and clear rights and responsibilities has been established. Technology control has been clearly defined and balanced, and an insurmountable boundary has been drawn for the rapid development of consciousness communication.