The history of virtual reality technology and the life story of the scientist who stood at the very origins of VR are intertwined in this book into a single narrative, and for good reason. Its author, Jaron Lanier, is perhaps the most extraordinary and bright scientist of our time, one of the first to take steps towards the development and popularization of virtual reality. It is he who has the right to be called the “father” of virtual reality, as the author of this term. Since the late 1980s, Jaron Lanier has been the most influential scientist in the field of data visualization, and in his autobiographical book, he not only shares with readers the story of how he came to the IT industry and how his most interesting discoveries occurred, but also reflects on the topic the future of VR technology and techno-society as a whole.