The Shape of Reality to Come

by Ryan Boudinot

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.

101 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2018

About the author

Ryan Boudinot is the author of the novels Blueprints of the Afterlife and Misconception, and the story collections The Octopus Rises and The Littlest Hitler.

Ryan received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Bennington College. He also holds a BA from The Evergreen State College. Born in the US Virgin Islands, he grew up in Skagit Valley, in Washington State, and now lives in Seattle.