Mel C. Thompson brings the struggle for power, technology, money, sex and meaning right home to Silicon Valley, to the very streets he himself has been walking for thirty years trying to find the very heart of the marketing machinery that runs the world. Lanny Carroway and his gaggle of fanboy venture capitalists are the supreme disruptors of every industry they enter. Ernie Fathoms is his statistical mastermind. And the parties they throw are massive. Everyone wants to be in the inner circle. The ones who get inside can see the secret gears of the machine that has us all running ourselves ragged, day and night, just to keep up. (Too bad the machine itself isn't real.) Welcome to Vaporware.