From the introduction: It wasn’t a nuclear holocaust. It wasn’t a plague. It wasn’t even the New World Order. It was a computer virus. 4 years after the turn of the millennium, five High School teenagers with nothing better to do, conjugated one weekend to write a computer virus. All they wanted was to make a name for themselves. Instead, they accidentally spread their electronic disease all over the world causing the collapse of every major system on the planet. A single mind can create a good virus. However, with five minds, you have human error and miscommunication to take to account. Together they started it. Yes started... it was only the beginning.