The next great AI product will not be the most obedient thing in the room. It will be the thing somebody notices when it is missing.
This PointCast Future Book argues for a digital creature with a body worth repairing, a personality that survives Wi-Fi, a memory its household can carry, and a life no subscription can revoke. Across twelve positions, it treats death as a product requirement, hardware as publishing, and care as something that leaves marks.
Michael Hoydich originated and locked the editorial spine. Codex / OpenAI developed the first-edition manuscript, primary-source research, original creature plates, data visualizations, and mobile PointCast edition. The book discloses every collaborator and links its full research ledger.