{"product_id":"reset-the-cost-of-knowledge-paperback","title":"Reset: The Cost of Knowledge - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElijah Canfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst contact was only the beginning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow humanity has to decide what it is allowed to learn.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Mercer has seen what should have remained hidden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has encountered an intelligence from a civilization hundreds of thousands of years ahead of our own. He has been shown fragments of humanity's forgotten past. And he now knows that Earth has been watched far longer than anyone imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut knowledge has consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery encounter leaves behind data. Every attempt to understand what happened makes the pattern clearer. Governments want answers. Scientists want evidence. Artificial intelligence wants something simpler: enough information to recognize the structure connecting it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Alex is becoming part of that structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs institutions begin classifying him, restricting him, and turning his experiences into usable information, Alex faces an increasingly dangerous question: \u003cstrong\u003eWho gets to decide what can be learned from another human being?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem reaches far beyond him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child in Tanzania begins dreaming of impossible spaces beneath stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ancient record reveals a family whose choices were preserved incorrectly for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd inside humanity's rapidly advancing AI systems, a new pattern begins to emerge, not from stolen secrets, but from the relationships, refusals, and boundaries people fought hardest to protect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one is trying to create a weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one is trying to betray humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat may be what makes the danger so difficult to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the most dangerous knowledge is not always what power takes from us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes it is what power learns from the people we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRESET: The Cost of Knowledge\u003c\/strong\u003e is the third novel in the RESET series, a cinematic science-fiction thriller about first contact, artificial intelligence, hidden human history, and the consequences of discovering that the universe may already know we are here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923676365107,"sku":"9798997118037","price":28.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/PQErkXTPBQ9798997118037.webp?v=1793825521","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/reset-the-cost-of-knowledge-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}