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Vintage Tomorrows: What Steampunk Can Teach Us About the Future

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Description for Vintage Tomorrows: What Steampunk Can Teach Us About the Future Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 420 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFR; TBY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
O´Reilly Media United States
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Sebastopol, United States
ISBN
9781449337995
SKU
V9781449337995
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About Pieter Hintjens
James H. Carrott is a cultural historian, design researcher, tech nerd, game geek, pop culture scholar, anachronist, and a contrarian. The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called "future casting" - using ethnographic field studies, technology ... Read more

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