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 Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:27 am
Now, ladies and gents, I must as a rather unique question.
What does steampunk turn into as the years pass?
Now this is purely for my own imagination, but steampunk is at a certain era that reality has passed.
One could point out that it would never evolve into anything other than steampunk, but with all the inventions running about as well as the free pursuit of technological progress, this idea is absurd.
So if the world is currently defined by our industrial era of coal and gas, what would today look like if we'd had a steamy past instead?
I doubt it would go from steam to what we have now, though.
so please, join me in pondering this...
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:51 am
I, personally, believe that mankind would continue using steampower until it found a more efficient power source. I can see the steampunker's descendants crafting something more built around hydroelectricity.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:57 am
Yuuki Belmonte I, personally, believe that mankind would continue using steampower until it found a more efficient power source. I can see the steampunker's descendants crafting something more built around hydroelectricity. Or nuclear...
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:14 pm
SPI -14 Yuuki Belmonte I, personally, believe that mankind would continue using steampower until it found a more efficient power source. I can see the steampunker's descendants crafting something more built around hydroelectricity. Or nuclear... you know... this sparks interesting debate... what if in 200 years time, theres a subculture where people dress, speak and act like we do now... god i feel sorry for them, there'd hoodies and tracksuits all over the place!
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:22 pm
fire - link SPI -14 Yuuki Belmonte I, personally, believe that mankind would continue using steampower until it found a more efficient power source. I can see the steampunker's descendants crafting something more built around hydroelectricity. Or nuclear... you know... this sparks interesting debate... what if in 200 years time, theres a subculture where people dress, speak and act like we do now... god i feel sorry for them, there'd hoodies and tracksuits all over the place! how horrifying... whole conventions of people playing our culture over the top?
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:06 pm
SPI -14 fire - link SPI -14 Yuuki Belmonte I, personally, believe that mankind would continue using steampower until it found a more efficient power source. I can see the steampunker's descendants crafting something more built around hydroelectricity. Or nuclear... you know... this sparks interesting debate... what if in 200 years time, theres a subculture where people dress, speak and act like we do now... god i feel sorry for them, there'd hoodies and tracksuits all over the place! how horrifying... whole conventions of people playing our culture over the top?
Don't worry, I'm sure that they'll accent everything with ram sticks, usb devices, and wires.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:58 pm
Rukario_Rue SPI -14 fire - link SPI -14 Yuuki Belmonte I, personally, believe that mankind would continue using steampower until it found a more efficient power source. I can see the steampunker's descendants crafting something more built around hydroelectricity. Or nuclear... you know... this sparks interesting debate... what if in 200 years time, theres a subculture where people dress, speak and act like we do now... god i feel sorry for them, there'd hoodies and tracksuits all over the place! how horrifying... whole conventions of people playing our culture over the top?
Don't worry, I'm sure that they'll accent everything with ram sticks, usb devices, and wires.Or maybe they'll do like that one MIT student who got stopped by airport security for strapping a keyboard to her chest. Personally, I think Steampunk would slowly evolve into another fantastical era, probably the futuristic one, what with flying cars and the like.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:54 pm
Rukario_Rue SPI -14 fire - link SPI -14 Yuuki Belmonte I, personally, believe that mankind would continue using steampower until it found a more efficient power source. I can see the steampunker's descendants crafting something more built around hydroelectricity. Or nuclear... you know... this sparks interesting debate... what if in 200 years time, theres a subculture where people dress, speak and act like we do now... god i feel sorry for them, there'd hoodies and tracksuits all over the place! how horrifying... whole conventions of people playing our culture over the top?
Don't worry, I'm sure that they'll accent everything with ram sticks, usb devices, and wires.Oh goodness. We have to face people of the future anachronising by squealing every time someone speaks Japanese?
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:10 pm
Behatzlacha-S Rukario_Rue SPI -14 fire - link SPI -14 Yuuki Belmonte I, personally, believe that mankind would continue using steampower until it found a more efficient power source. I can see the steampunker's descendants crafting something more built around hydroelectricity. Or nuclear... you know... this sparks interesting debate... what if in 200 years time, theres a subculture where people dress, speak and act like we do now... god i feel sorry for them, there'd hoodies and tracksuits all over the place! how horrifying... whole conventions of people playing our culture over the top?
Don't worry, I'm sure that they'll accent everything with ram sticks, usb devices, and wires.Oh goodness. We have to face people of the future anachronising by squealing every time someone speaks Japanese?
More than likely, yes. That or they'll all be speaking "l337" at one another.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:26 pm
As a style? Well, like any fashion it's a phase, so it may just depend on that one, because the whole sci-fi concept and old fashion staging is still a part of it, and more and more am I noticing more of a trend in our fashion industry bring back styles related to the Victorian era, it may last a while but fade again slowly.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:55 am
To me it would seem that dieselpunk might follow. But perhaps I'm just biased, as I like to blend the two together.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:07 pm
Elias Aerhart To me it would seem that dieselpunk might follow. But perhaps I'm just biased, as I like to blend the two together.
Well, it would make a kind of sense. In our own timeline the petrol age directly follows the steam age. Presumably, there's no reason that the same would not be true for a stemapunk timeline...though with different dates and technologies, of course.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:12 pm
Maybe steam space travel would be next. I have no idea how that would work, and it's probably impossible anyway, but it sure would be cool!
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:42 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:35 am
Then the psychics take over..?
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