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Vintage Tomorrows -- What Can Playing With the Past Teach Us About the Future?

Mark Frauenfelder at 12:03 pm Wed, Oct 31, 2012

Here's the trailer for an upcoming O'Reilly book, called Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian And A Futurist Journey Through Steampunk Into The Future of Technology, by James H. Carrott & Brian David Johnson. (Hi Cory!)

This book walks through the Steampunk movement and what their alternative history says about our own world and its technological future. It includes interviews with experts such as Cory Doctorow, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood, who talk about how Steampunk has become a cultural movement.The authors have also just completed a documentary by the same name. You can see the trailer here

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Book? What are these Books you speak of? But seriously, it looks like it would make a good documentary film.
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