Vintage Tomorrows by Carrott, James H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Vintage Tomorrows Dedication Foreword: Any Questions? Prologue

Acknowledgments

From James From Brian

1. A Futurist and a Cultural Historian Walk into a Bar

It All Starts in a Bar

2. Beats, Pranksters, Hippies, Steampunks!

An Embedded Historian I Reject Your Reality and Create My Own Living the Past

Counterculture’s Not Dead, It’s Outside Looking In How the Beats Became “Beatniks” Still On the Bus You Get the Burn You Need: Discovering Steampunk at Burning Man That’s How it All Started

3. Technology That Ships Broken

A George Orwell for the 21st Century Contraptions, Coffee, and Culture Bodging About Over Lunch Remembering Just How Miraculous Technology Can Be Reflections in a Taxicab Window

4. A World-Destroying Death Ray Should Look Like a World-Destroying Death Ray

Three Degrees of (Hairy) Separation From Elder Goth to American Steampunk Icon What If They Didn’t Run Out of War? There’s Room for Everyone to Play

Technology Should Be Beautiful... and Hands-On

Pretty Is Its Own Reward

5. Steampunk: A Dinner in Three Courses

Getting the Band Back Together The Big Night Arrives

First Course: Steampunk Soup Main Course: The Meat of the Matter Dessert: The Future Looks Sweet

A Film is Born

Prelude. A Note from the Historian 6. It’s About Chickens and Teapots

Chicken Tea Is Clucking Good Steamcon and the Steampunk Sandbox

The Steampunk Scholar

Scholar on the Spot Asking the Right Questions Snark Hunting in Victoria

7. Digging Into the Past

The Past Is About 75 Feet Deep, Depending on the Season All Those Futures and Pasts Bumping Into Each Other: Scott Westerfeld

Not Nostalgia for an Era, But for Its Fantasies History Wears Uncomfortable Shoes

We Have Met the Victorians and They are Us

Steampunk Is Happening Now

Time Flies, But Not Very Well Early-onset Steampunk

8. History Has Sharp Edges

Having a Higher Bar: China Miéville

It’s About Power

The Victorian Problem Steam Around the World: Jaymee Goh Art, Social Change, Martinis… and More Chickens An Evening With Abney Park

9. Punking Time in Key West

Living in the Future

Our World is Not the Only One Possible: Margaret Atwood The Information: James Gleick

Steampunk Parallax: William Gibson The Shock of the New: Dexter Palmer

Endless Summer

10. The Answer’s in Our Own Backyard

Empire and Rebellion in a Cup of Tea The Septic Tank: Overflowing with Ideas Sorting Through the Rubbish A Bloke Without a Shed A Wall of Hammers Henry Hoke, Tinker of a Deeper Truth The Hand-Brain Link

11. Makers and Burners

Cultural Capital Friday: The Infrastructure of Inspiration Saturday: Mad Science and the Safety Switch Problem Sunday and Beyond: Neverwas a More Marvelous Thing

Furthur into the Neverwas!

12. Pop Goes Steampunk

Steampunk Is Coming to Town

Steampunk Grew Three Sizes That Day

Prelude. A Note from the Futurist 13. Humor Is the New Killer App

Siri, Where’s the Closest Comedy Club? What’s This Humor Business All About? Jaime Masada Humor Is Like Sex (Err, at Least So Say the Experts) Humor Is Social Why Now? Accepting the New

14. Don’t Forget the Humans

How an Anthropologist Changed the World: Genevieve Bell A Genealogy of Devices: Humor Is All About Relationships History Is a Tricky Idea Infusing Human Personality Into Technology The Romantic Poets of the Information Age

15. When Is an iPhone Like a Pocket Watch?

Is That the Past in Your Pocket? Once Upon a Time, the Pocket Watch Was an iPhone Meanwhile Back at the Bar We Can’t Touch Our Past; It’s Been Turned into Bits

Meanwhile Back at the Bar

The Science of Memory and the Future Meanwhile Back at the Bar What Kind of History Do You Want to Be From?

Meanwhile Back at the Bar

16. We Must Design a Better Future

A Conversation with Bruce Mau Design Is Humor History Is a Bridge to New Places Extraordinary Human Capacity

17. Humanity in the Machine

Humans (and Steampunks) are Hairy Great Hairy Steampunks! Where Does the Internet Live When it Goes Home for the Night? Fantastic, Marvelous, and Wonderful Technology Being Used by a Bored 16 Year-old Girl Mr. Jobs’s Incredible Music-Shrinking Apparatus

18. We Want to Remember a Time When Our Lives Were Not Made of Plastic

On the Road to Burning Man The Maker’s Maker: Jake von Slatt

19. What’s Next?

Last Call Compute Moves to Zero

A. Image Credits Index About the Authors Colophon Copyright

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