Steampunk workshop
This Modern Life is full of efficiencies: high-fructose corn syrup, the bubbly shape of modern cars, 2 GB RAM. In general, efficient markets and efficient products make the world a better place. Efficiencies can also make life very bland. Steampunk paradoxically celebrates both technology and inefficiency. Using steam, steel, gears, a DIY ethic and a [...]
1930: the future is a fanny pack
While this video is mostly concerned with the 1930s predictions of ladies fashion in AD 2000, I found the most fascinating part to be the Man of the Future: “He’ll be fitted with a telephone, a radio, and containers for coins, keys, and candies for cuties.” Was the prediction of the future that impressively accurate, [...]
1989: Who’s Newton?
We’re just a bunch of dorks here at Fullsteam. Dorks who are fascinated with failed and often inane predictions of the future. I think this interest in past predictions stems from our own idealized vision of the tavern: a gathering space more concerned with the here-and-now than what tomorrow might bring. Historically, the American tavern [...]
