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Vintage Tomorrows
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Vintage Tomorrows

by James H. Carrott, Brian David Johnson
February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
11h 24m
English
Make: Community
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Chapter 15. When Is an iPhone Like a Pocket Watch?

The entire Vintage Tomorrows gang heads to New York City to attend New York Comic Con. Byrd is doing a preview screening of the documentary while James and Brian finish up on their research and talk about the importance of history and technology.

History anchors our understanding of the new; it gives our lives resonance and allows us to make sense of an increasingly complex world. James reminds us that many futures all happening at once require an equal number of simultaneous pasts. Just like the future, history lives in our imaginations. What does this mean for how we build new technology? How do we make different requests of the future, and what kind of past do we want to have? Brian explores ...

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