Vintage Tomorrows

Foreword: Any Questions?

Henry Jenkins

Vintage Tomorrows started as a conversation between a cultural historian and a futurist: what might steampunk (as a genre, movement, lifestyle, and philosophy) teach us about the ways people are thinking about their relationships with technology? They found it a gripping topic, they set out to talk with others, and the conversation kept broadening outward, as they found more thinking partners, many of whom were already talking through these questions together, and as one question led to another and another…

Christopher Columbus sailed west to get east; these authors looked into our collective fantasies about the past (or rather yesterday’s tomorrows) in order to better understand our shared desires for ...