Book description
What would today’s technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That’s the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott explore steampunk, a cultural movement that’s captivated thousands of artists, designers, makers, hackers, and writers throughout the world.
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Foreword: Any Questions?
- Prologue
- 1. A Futurist and a Cultural Historian Walk into a Bar
- 2. Beats, Pranksters, Hippies, Steampunks!
- 3. Technology That Ships Broken
- 4. A World-Destroying Death Ray Should Look Like a World-Destroying Death Ray
- 5. Steampunk: A Dinner in Three Courses
- Prelude. A Note from the Historian
- 6. It’s About Chickens and Teapots
- 7. Digging Into the Past
- 8. History Has Sharp Edges
- 9. Punking Time in Key West
- 10. The Answer’s in Our Own Backyard
- 11. Makers and Burners
- 12. Pop Goes Steampunk
- Prelude. A Note from the Futurist
- 13. Humor Is the New Killer App
- 14. Don’t Forget the Humans
- 15. When Is an iPhone Like a Pocket Watch?
- 16. We Must Design a Better Future
- 17. Humanity in the Machine
- 18. We Want to Remember a Time When Our Lives Were Not Made of Plastic
- 19. What’s Next?
- A. Image Credits
- Index
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Vintage Tomorrows
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2013
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449337995
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