Katie Kacvinsky

In 2060, seventeen-year-old Maddie is sent to a Los Angeles detention center and subjected to brainwashing to get her to accept a world in which nearly all personal interaction is done online.

In the year 2060, when people hardly ever leave the security of their houses and instead do everything online, Madeline Freeman, the seventeen-year-old daughter of the man who created the national digital school attended by all citizens, is wooed by a group of radicals who are trying to get people to "unplug."