QuanTech's quantum computing research uncovered the existence of something unexpected. The research team proposed a plan that most people would consider dangerous — a social experiment designed to accelerate progress and success for human civilization, based on controlling the flow of information at scale. You hack into a leaked version of QuanTech's system alongside other hackers and begin extracting what they have been keeping private. From there, you can manipulate corporations and the people connected to them, observe what your interference produces, and decide whether the power you now have over this networked world is something to protect or exploit. The game is full of genuinely controversial positions on what direction society should take, and it does not settle the question for you.