[4][better source needed] The trilogy follows Caitlin Decter, a brilliant young blind teenager whose disability is more of a benefit when surfing the Internet.
However, even as Webmind shows how it can benefit mankind, the government believes that it is an entity that should be destroyed at all costs.
Sawyer was inspired to write the WWW Trilogy after reading an issue of New Scientist that remarked that in the early 21st century the World Wide Web "could have the same number of synapses as the human brain", which made him draw comparisons to human evolution.
[15] As such, he conducted research on what it was like to be blind and received input from his nieces, which he used to help build the character of Caitlin.
[17][18][19] Much of the praise centered on its characters and technology, and in their review of Wake, the SF Site commented that "Even with such a focus on technology and culture, Sawyer never loses sight of his individual characters.