#CMPTO From Storyverse to Thingiverse: A Bookish Vision

For those who've spent any time imagining the forms our books could take, or thinking about how our products now enable different interactions thanks to digitization -- we've got a stellar line up of speakers for you.

Richard Nash, VP of Content and Community at Small Demons (https://www.smalldemons.com/), presents the Storyverse.

Andre Tiemann & Paulo Bittencourt, along with the 3d printer they made in Andre's basement, show us the Thingiverse.

Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebulla award winning science fiction author of 22 novels, gives us his vision.

Speaker Bios

Paulo Bittencourt

Paulo's first toy was a box of wires, plugs and light sockets. He works as a web developer, amateur musician and sound engineer, and all around geek. 3D printing came into his life unexpectedly and makes him really excited about the future. His current contribution to society is spreading the word about the exciting possibilities of this technology in bringing the creative power of the digital world to the physical.

Richard Nash

Richard is an independent publishing entrepreneur—VP of Community and Content of Small Demons (http://smalldemons.com/), founder of Cursor, and Publisher of Red Lemonade (http://redlemona.de/). For most of the past decade, he ran the iconic indie Soft Skull Press for which work he was awarded the Association of American Publishers’ Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing in 2005. Books he edited and published landed on bestseller lists from the Boston Globe to the Singapore Straits-Times; on Best of the Year lists from The Guardian to the Toronto Globe & Mail to the Los Angeles Times; the last book he edited there, Lydia Millet’s Love in Infant Monkeys, was selected as a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Last year the Utne Reader named him one of Fifty Visionaries Changing Your World and Mashable.com picked him as the #1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing. He has spoken on the history and future of reading, writing, and publishing across the world, from Melbourne to Toronto to Helsinki to Seoul—Chris Anderson characterizes his Publishing 3.0 talk as “the best I have ever seen.”

Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer has been called “a writer of bold scientific extrapolation” by The New York Times, and New Scientist magazine says his work is “scientifically plausible, fictionally intriguing, and ethically important.” He has published in both of the world’s top science journals, Science and Nature. The ABC television series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name.

Rob is one of only eight authors in history to win the world’s three top science-fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. His 21 best-selling novels have been translated into 20 languages, and he’s won the top science-fiction awards in the United States, Canada, Japan, China, France, and Spain.

Andre Tiemann

Andre is obsessed with all things 3D printing. A long ago Psychology student, who in time wanted to be a writer before deciding to pursue book-publishing may not fit the profile of a 3D printer enthusiast. But over the last year and change—while dutiful employed in Production at a print shop—he has been building a RepRap Prusa Mendel in his basement. From there, he has participated in workshops and given talks at Toronto's HackLab, networked with like-minded individuals and is working on a viable business strategy centered around the emerging consumer 3D Printer market.