


Rosenfield initially worried that she wasn’t geeky enough to work on A Trick of Light, but says that her collaborators, who also included Luke Lieberman and Ryan Silbert, felt that she would bring a fresh perspective to the project. Even though people could get online and talk to people anywhere in the world, a lot of us felt more alone than ever.” “Instead of connecting people, it was having the effect of tribalizing them. “Stan felt that the internet had not necessarily lived up to its promise,” Rosenfield says. But events soon spiral out of control, as Cameron finds himself enmeshed in the internet’s dark side. In A Trick of Light, a teenage YouTuber named Cameron Ackerson is struck by lightning and finds himself gifted with “cyberkinesis,” the ability to manipulate computers with his mind.
