The Shape of Reality to Come
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by Ryan Boudinot
112 Pages | 6x9 Paperback
Virtual reality and artificial intelligence are already changing what it means to be an artist, an entrepreneur, and a human. In this appropriately strange and delightful book, Ryan Boudinot charts the course of this cultural shift through essays, musings, and even leadership principles. The world will be different by the time you finish reading it, and so will you.
112 Pages | 6x9 Paperback
Virtual reality and artificial intelligence are already changing what it means to be an artist, an entrepreneur, and a human. In this appropriately strange and delightful book, Ryan Boudinot charts the course of this cultural shift through essays, musings, and even leadership principles. The world will be different by the time you finish reading it, and so will you.
This visionary essay collection will teach you how to engineer a renaissance, it will provide new terms and concepts for thinking about collaboration and narrative in VR, it will show you the shape of reality to come, and how you can affect that shape. Drawing on the rise of grunge and the ascendance of Amazon, Boudinot unpacks and clarifies what's really at stake in our current media revolution and springboards from there into the far future, where perhaps artificial intelligence will take the spore of human life and spread it to the stars.
About the Author
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Ryan Boudinot is the founder of Seattle City of Literature, the organization that successfully lobbied for Seattle's inclusion in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. His novel Blueprints of the Afterlife (Grove Atlantic/Black Cat, 2012) was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award and has been published in translation in Spain and the Czech Republic. He published The Octopus Rises (2015) with Fantagraphics Books, collaborating with the comic book publisher’s art department on the unique design and typography. His debut collection The Littlest Hitler (Counterpoint, 2006) was a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. He lives in Seattle, where he works in the immersive media industry.
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Praise for Ryan Boudinot
"A fierce literary imagination"
-- The New York Times
"Ryan Boudinot . . . writes like the bastard son of Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs and Aldous Huxley."
-- Time Out New York
"Dude’s got chops, and he has the mastery of language to make those chops do something unique."
-- The Seattle Review of Books
"A fierce literary imagination"
-- The New York Times
"Ryan Boudinot . . . writes like the bastard son of Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs and Aldous Huxley."
-- Time Out New York
"Dude’s got chops, and he has the mastery of language to make those chops do something unique."
-- The Seattle Review of Books