John Hillings, an employee of an Ohio manufacturing firm now run by two Cybot entities mockingly called Huey and Dewey—the latest in operational Artificial Intelligence who will be let loose to bring about their notions of positive change on society once they have mastered human communication—suspects them of having a crazed agenda injurious to mankind. While engaging them in fruitless bouts of demented logic, from which he despairs of rational communication with an electronic brain, he and his fourteen-year-old son Nate, a member of a teen underground group called Warrior Hackers of America, determine to be vigilant regarding the Cybots’ every move for devious designs and wacky projects. Including the very real possibility that they could decimate the earth’s human population purely by misadventure.