Daniel Suarez Sees Into the Future - WSJ.com

Likely to be a great read; his earlier books are also on my recommended-reading list

"In "Influx," due out Feb. 20, a sinister Bureau of Technology Control kidnaps scientists that have developed breakthrough technologies (the cure to cancer, immortality, true artificial intelligence), and is withholding their discoveries from humanity, out of concern over the massive social disruption they would cause. "We don't have a perfect record—Steve Jobs was a tricky one—but we've managed to catch most of the big disrupters before they've brought about uncontrolled social change," says the head of the bureau, the book's villain."

Daniel Suarez Sees Into the Future - WSJ.com