About the book: year / The book is a novel by a West German writer on a topic that worries many writers - the role of technology in the future of society. The book tells about a cybernetic machine of unprecedented size, versatility and power, created according to the plans and projects of the doctor, neurosurgeon Scriven, who became the scientific director of a giant plant, combining the functions of a scientific institute, an industrial enterprise and an important military-political center.