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Paolo Oberti

2050 · Book 1

2050: Eye of God

With cars, we stopped walking. With GPS, we lost our sense of direction. With AI? What if AI didn’t destroy humanity, but anesthetized it?

In a Europe governed by artificial intelligence, A young engineer hunted for the technology he created must rely on human instinct to survive after a surveillance system capable of identifying anyone falls into the wrong hands.
Genre
High-concept, speculative dystopian thriller
Structure
Trilogy
State
Complete
Rights available
World English / Translation / Film & TV
Audience
Adult
Word count
82,000, approx
Language
Available in English and Italian
Themes
The novel does not portray artificial intelligence as inherently evil. Instead, it asks a more uncomfortable question: what if the greatest danger of AI is not that machines learn to think like us, but that we stop thinking for ourselves?
Narrative style
Cinematic, propulsive and character-driven, combining technological realism with psychological tension
Narrative tone
Tense, unsettling and thought-provoking, with a strong human and emotional dimension
Timeline
Future, between 2030 and 2050
Setting
Primarily Rural Italy, Denmark and the United States
Narrative Perspective
Third person, multiple perspectives

Strengths

● Action Dystopia: Set in a near future with ties to current reality.
● Clear Core Theme: An algorithm capable of predicting every human choice.
● Original Plot: A mix of technology, family secrets, and the search for identity.
● Ethical Reflection: Combines engaging storytelling with ethical questions regarding the misuse of new technologies.

Comparables

Upgrade and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Daemon by Daniel
Suarez, 1984 by George Orwell, The Circle by Dave Eggers, fans of the technological speculation and societal tension found in Black Mirror and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

Synopsis

What if the greatest threat of artificial intelligence wasn’t that it could think for us—but that we might stop thinking for ourselves?

In 2050, artificial intelligence has become inseparable from everyday life. It remembers, advises, predicts—and
increasingly decides.

Twenty-three-year-old computer engineer Adam Sabatino has helped build that future. His latest creation, Eye of God, is a revolutionary surveillance system capable of identifying and tracking virtually anyone on Earth.
Then the system is stolen.

Framed by the corporation he works for and stripped of the AI assistant he has relied on for years, Adam is forced off-grid. Hunted across Europe, he must rediscover the one thing technology has slowly taken from him: the ability to trust his own instincts.

But the deeper Adam digs, the more personal the conspiracy becomes. His investigation leads from the hidden architecture of global surveillance to a past that should not exist—and to the truth about his own identity.
Because in a world where technology can recognize every face, predict every movement and reconstruct every connection, the most dangerous secret may be the one hidden in Adam’s own DNA.

2050: Eye of God is a high-concept speculative thriller about identity, power and the price of progress—and the first novel in the 2050 Trilogy.


Author's Note

The story began unexpectedly, twenty years ago, on a ten-hour flight to Bogotá.
Seat 16A
The screen at seat 16A wasn’t working.
I was alone.
Ten hours stood between me and Bogotá.
Ten hours without any entertainment. 
No films. No music. No books. No Wi-Fi. 
All I had in front of me was a blank
Word document.
The cursor blinked.
Tentatively, I typed a word.
Then another.
Then another.
And then, without warning, something changed.
The words began to flow on their own.
I wasn’t writing anymore.
I was travelling.
Through time.
Through space.
The jolt of the landing gear hitting the runway brought me back to reality.
Bogotá.
I had arrived.
But I didn’t think:
Finally. I thought only:
Not now…
I’m at the best part.
Adam was born in those pages.
Over the years that followed, writing became my way of escaping the boredom of long-haul flights.
Every journey added another fragment.
A character.
A conversation.
An idea.
But 2050: Eye of God had not yet been born.
That would take another fifteen years.
Fifteen years of experiences, encounters, successes, failures, and questions.
Then something happened.
The collision between a technology as extraordinary as artificial intelligence and its growing influence over humanity became the true driving force behind the novel.
Fragments of text.
Stories that seemed unrelated.
Characters waiting to find their place.
Slowly, everything began to converge.
It was no longer just a story.
It had become a reflection I felt compelled to share.
And with that, 2050: Eye of God finally found the strength to become a book.
It was that motivation—social, human, and philosophical—that gave me the energy to endure two years of sleepless nights, discipline, method, and rigour, and bring the work to completion.
Without that deeper purpose, Adam, the protagonist of this story, would probably have remained on that plane forever.
My travelling companion.