The Datapod Farm: Dr. Floyd pioneered a new technology allowing humans to directly interface with computers allowing for massive improvements in virtual reality simulation.
Unbeknownst to the young genius, however, his financial backer Rex Warwick had other plans for the technology. With the help of Floyds assistant Hershel, the nefarious billionaire realized the interface allowed the mainframe to make use of the awesome processing capacity of the human mind. If humans could be connected permanently as datapods, it would be possible to build the most powerful computer in history&