It contains blueprints for inventions that have not yet been created.
Historian Claire Hudson discovers the archive while researching a forgotten American scientist. Inside she finds designs for technologies that seem impossible: self-healing materials, artificial organs, autonomous spacecraft, quantum communication systems, and machines capable of creating new medicines in minutes.
But every invention is dated.
Some are dated decades in the future.
Claire soon discovers that America's technological progress has been guided by this archive for generations. Each year, a small number of inventions are released to the scientific community at precisely the right moment.
But someone has broken the rules.
A future technology has been released too early.
And its consequences are already spreading across the world.
Claire must find the keeper of the archive before humanity receives knowledge it was never supposed to possess.