Artificial Imagination: A humorous, thoughtfully thoughtless description of a Hi-Tech immigrant's journey through space, time, life and love.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 
Topics of conversation:
*How writing is a creative contrast from technology career.
*Humor as a bridge between cultures.
*The immigrant experience, adapting to local customs and people.
*Fascinating insights into upcoming advances in the technology field.
*Online marketing, publishing, promoting - Amazon and Kindle.
Kalpanik S. was born in India and came to the USA on a fellowship from the University of California to pursure graduate level studies and research in Computer Science in the late eighties.
After completing his graduate studies, Kalpanik worked at both large technology companies and small startups in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Southern California. He has been writing a journal about his "journey'" though US, and he finally decided to get it published as a book.
Kalpanik (pronounced as Kaalp-Nik) means “imaginary” in Hindi. Author uses a pen name to allow him to separate his literary identity from his professional identity.
Kalpanik has been described as a observer of people places and culture, not only he is able to point to their uniqueness, oddity, eccentricity or special characteristics, like a good comedian, he cleverly stretches it for a humorous effect, making his audience crack up page after page.
Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc. (2008)
ISBN 9780981476247
Synopsis: This is full color interior version of the book. This captivating, new book mixes technology and art together into a fascinating and philosophical combination. The book follows one high-tech immigrant's journey through United States as he graduates from University of California and ventures from Silicon Valley to Seattle, Nashville and back to California in a quest for his dream job and his search for a place which accepts him, a place he could call home.
The story is purportedly narrated by an artificial intelligence program with the ability to simulate human creativity, sense of humor and spirit of adventure. Technology is all brain, no heart, all cold logic, and no warm soul, or is it?
This gem of a book reminds us that technology could not exist were it not for boundless creativity, and it does this in such a way as to also remind us that without that very same creativity, there would be no art, no literature.
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