Invention Is a Mother

Description

As a recently graduated and happily unemployed engineer, Shaughnessy shirks responsibility whenever possible. He coasts through life, sidestepping every opportunity to follow in his father Walton’s footsteps, until Walton begins to suspect that he has MFD (mysterious fatal disease).

The family coerces Shaughnessy to use his identiTee—a half-baked technology of programmable identity-to impersonate his father at Critical Think Inc. There, he is immediately entangled in the development of an irrational consumer product: portable parking.

Pressured to innovate in the face of absurd challenges and the visionary CEO’s fantastical demands, Shaughnessy teeters on the edge between breakthrough and breakdown.