A small group of scientists contracted to develop a super electronic eavesdropping system for intercepting possible terrorist communications stumble across a signal of extraterrestrial origin, coming from the Andromeda galaxy, some 2 million light years from Earth.
The signal contains the instructions for building a Computer far in advance of anything humanity is yet capable of. The device is constructed and begins to issue instructions for the development of artificial life. Andromeda, created in the image of a team member who died in mysterious circumstances associated with the Computer, is born.
The machine seems to offer so much - the possibility of curing all human diseases - but does it "know" too much, especially about how to manipulate humans in pursuit of what they desire, to achieve its own ends?
The signal contains the instructions for building a Computer far in advance of anything humanity is yet capable of. The device is constructed and begins to issue instructions for the development of artificial life. Andromeda, created in the image of a team member who died in mysterious circumstances associated with the Computer, is born.
The machine seems to offer so much - the possibility of curing all human diseases - but does it "know" too much, especially about how to manipulate humans in pursuit of what they desire, to achieve its own ends?