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Did you ever wonder why science fiction novels or films seem to use older, outdated technology in their visions of the future? Chalk it up to the influence of steam punk, a genre of speculative fiction that re-imagines the future with gadgetry of the past.

While the others peer 15 minutes into the future, steampunk envisions a future that has collapsed onto a re-imagined Victorian past. Steam and clockworks replace silicon logic, brass and copper stand in for titanium and plastic, and airships replace spaceships. Link

Jake von Slatt runs a Steampunk Workshop which is a combination workshop, inventor’s haven and online art gallery, where he attempts to take the new and make it old. Pictured is his Steampunk monitor and computer. Check out the Wired article for a slide show of his various inventions.

Margot Knight was part of a high-speed art theft and was diligently chased by several cops. The most interesting part of the story was not the part where she was held up at gunpoint, or even the part where she made a large sum of cash from an expensive painting, but the fact that it was all in her head.

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