What do you do when you are promised no future beyond the next Steve Jobs keynote address or summer blockbuster movie? What do you do when your present consists of going to work, paying the bills, and trying to make ends meet? Our society would have you put your head down, work a little longer, try a little harder, and maybe order that 50-inch wide screen TV from Amazon.com.
Open the Future: Legacy Futures - 0 views
The Institute For The Future - 0 views
The California Steampunk Convention - Keynote | The Steampunk Workshop - 0 views
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The EULA rebellion. The fact that you're forbidden from opening a box, that some software companies insist that you're just renting their products, and that hardware makers intentionally cripple their devices, is a challenge to hackers and tinkerers. Tinkering is defined in part in terms of a resistance to consumer culture and the restrictive policies of corporations.
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The advent of cheap personal computers spawned a society of programmers and hackers who write computer programs for their own use and distribute the source code, the program's core instructions, for free to anyone that's interested. Over time, these hackers have coalesced into groups and organizations that are capable of rivaling the skill and ability of huge corporations when it comes to the production of computer programs and particularly computer operating systems.
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"Difference engines and other infernal devices: history according to steampunk" - 0 views
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In the introduction to The Other Victorians, Steven Marcus states that ''as we try to understand the past we try to understand ourselves in relation to the past'' (xix). Marcus's words, as much as they provide a rationale for historiography in general, are particularly pertinent to the fascination that the Victorian period has for contemporary audiences. We recognize ourselves in a play of similarity and difference, or, as Marcus puts it, the Victorians' ''otherness connects them to us,'' though, he cautions, ''connection is nevertheless not identity.'' While Marcus allows for historical breakthroughs, that is, for moments of radical change, he still considers Victorianism the first half of the paradigmatic bracket within which we still operate at the present time
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he insists that the transfer of culturally marginal materials into the mainstream takes place the same way today as it did a hundred years ago--''split off from what might have been expected to accompany [them]--impulses of a social revolutionary kind'' (154). In other words, what we share with the Victorians are essentially the same social, economic, and political structures, as well as a sense that cultural transformation can or will take place without affecting them in any direct or immediate way
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what makes the Victorian past so fascinating is its unique historical ability to reflect the present moment
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New group - first post - 11 views
Hello and welcome to any future Steampunk friends. I first off wanted to point out that the first single bookmark labeled "steampunk" is actually a whole lot of bookmarks - you just have to click o...
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