<p>In the near future young tech entrepreneur Declan Marchand invents Perpetuonics a method of digitizing a living person's character knowledge emotions and memories - and then bringing that person back into existence after death. These Digital beINGS - Dings in shorthand - can theoretically live forever. They reside in massive servers where they communicate with living people with the help of a living Compadore. They are also of course subject to rules and restrictions . . . until they begin to discover their own power.</p><p><br></p>