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The Cognitive Quota: When Thinking Becomes a Regulated Resource
Paperback
Series: Threshold, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 2 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Kade Primer has changed everything. Sixty-eight percent of the global population can now enter Enhanced cognitive state - faster thinking, sharper pattern recognition, accelerated synthesis. The world should be better. It isn't.
For Rael Voss, the Primer is a lifeline. For the coalition governments scrambling to regulate it, the Primer is a crisis. For the corporations that have begun selling cognitive enhancement contracts - time-limited access to Enhanced state, at a price - the Primer is a product.
Someone is now tracking Enhanced hours. Someone is enforcing limits. And when Rael's quota runs out, the thinking that has kept her alive stops being available.
The Cognitive Quota is a propulsive techno-thriller about the moment intelligence becomes a managed resource - and what people do when their mind is the thing being rationed.
For readers of Neuromancer, The Windup Girl, and hard science fiction that keeps its feet on the ground.
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