Steampunk

a: Steampunk ~
b: a snapshot from the last moment in human history

What: Author Scott Westerfeld says Steampunk is like a snapshot from the last moment in human history when technology was intelligible to the layman. The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient. Westerfield describes iPods and phones as "microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects."

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Writer: Linda Thomas
LCC: N
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Date: Jan 18 2011 2:14 AM


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