Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian And A Futurist Journey Through Steampunk Into The Future of Technology (inbunden)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
412
Utgivningsdatum
2013-02-06
Upplaga
1
Förlag
O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES
Medarbetare
Jenkins, Henry
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
228 x 154 x 23 mm
Vikt
568 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781449337995

Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian And A Futurist Journey Through Steampunk Into The Future of Technology

What Steampunk Can Teach Us About the Future

av James H Carrott, Brian David Johnson
Häftad,  Engelska, 2013-02-06
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What would todays technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? Thats 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 thats captivated thousands of artists, designers, makers, hackers, and writers throughout the world.

Just like today, the late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change, and writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells commented on their time with fantastic stories that jumpstarted science fiction. Through interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood, this book looks into steampunks vision of old-world craftsmen making beautiful hand-tooled gadgets, and what it says about our age of disposable technology.

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 history that never existed can help us reimagine our future.
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James H Carrott, Brian David Johnson

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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 research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love, Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories and the forthcoming This Is Planet Earth). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.

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