Microscopic armies have waged war on humanity for thousands of years. The human species is in an escalating arms race with super-bugs and super-viruses: living organisms that attack our bodies, adapt to our treatments, evolve and fight back. Medicine is our great weapon to fight back against invisible, unthinkable death.

If knowledge is power, communication is the jet fuel, the delivery system, the gift we give each other that links the modern world. Through wireless connections and mobile phones, billions of people can make their voices and ideas heard around the globe. But it has a dark side.