What Steampunk Can Teach Us About the Future
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/03/2013
Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It's more than just a whimsical idea. In the past few years, the Steampunk genre has captivated makers, hackers, artists, designers, writers, and others throughout the world. In this fascinating book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott offer insights into what Steampunk's alternative history says about our own world and its technological future. Interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood explore how this vision of stylish craftsmen making fantastic and beautiful hand-tooled gadgets has become a cultural movement - and perhaps an important countercultural moment. Steampunk is everywhere - as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a future that never existed can help us look forward.
- ISBN:
- 9781449337995
- 9781449337995
- Category:
- Social forecasting
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 26-03-2013
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 250
- Dimensions (mm):
- 233x178x23mm
- Weight:
- 0.57kg
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