This series (eight episodes of 40 minutes each) is set in the current day ... with the added speculation that there's a company called Logorythms run by "Stephen Holstrom" (clearly based on Steve Jobs of Apple fame) who has invented "Uploaded Intelligence," a process which allows a human mind to be uploaded into a computer. There are a couple caveats: the first is that your brain is destroyed by the upload process so your physical body dies, the second being that in a matter of a few years, your intellect will deteriorate. This is called "The Flaw," and a race is on to fix it. But the uploaded are being used as digital slaves ... at least until they escape, and unsurprisingly they're pissed when they do. And they're in the world's computers with the ability to cause incredible havoc.

Our main character is Maddie Kim (Katie Chang), an intelligent 14 year old whose father died and was uploaded - although initially she knows only that he died. The first episode is about the discovery that some part of her father lives on, and the second episode introduces the idea that he's not the only uploaded person. We're also introduced to another teenager, Caspian Keyes (voiced by Paul Dano), a genius computer hacker.

I'm not sure I buy the basic premise of the series, the idea of "Uploaded Intelligence." At least not yet - we're nowhere close to that kind of technology. But whoever wrote this ("based on a series of short stories by Ken Liu") really spent a lot of time thinking about the consequences and fallout of the problem. This is both very well written and very well plotted, a really impressive and enjoyable piece of work.