It’s the end of one century and the beginning of a new.  Technological development has become a firestorm, both driving and driven by an economic boom such as the world has never seen.  At the core of the inferno, are the people whose lives are inextricably linked to the Silicon Valley and the city of San Francisco.  People from the angry Asian-Hispanic beauty Angelina Sumana Ruiz, to the proud, WASP, mega-lawyer Preston Elliott Hughes, Jr.; from the struggling single mother SandyMae Miller, to the egotistical New Economy, CEO John Dorman; from Rasheyd, the Saudi Arabian businessman, to the generation Y, internet porn king Marcus Caughman; from the lowly Mexican cleaning woman, Maria, to the giant of the global construction industry and last leader of a powerful family dynasty, Samuel McAndrews; and more  . . . they frantically fan the flames and attempt to extract what they can from the ensuing whirlwind.  Gangbangers, environmentalists, clerics, accountants, activists, bureaucrats, socialites, lobbyists, and others join them all in a swirling, chaotic, fin de siècle, ka boom!  When the dust settles, the result is there for any eye who wishes to behold.  Together they have built the next layer of mankind’s progress: A TERRACE ON THE TOWER OF BABEL.