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00:00People constantly ask me, what is steampunk?
00:15Steampunk is a subculture, a creative community, an aesthetic movement.
00:20It is retrofuturism.
00:21It is the science fiction of the future that never happened.
00:24It's full of grand and glorious, stylish people doing beautiful stuff with technology.
00:30The time where instead of people looking at technology in such a negative way, it was
00:34incredibly optimistic.
00:35There is nothing too far away that we cannot reach.
00:37And so it's full of mad inventors building incredible, fantastic contraptions.
00:40There's adventure, there's excitement.
00:42There's a whimsy to it, and there's a play with the past.
00:45You get the fantasy stuff, and you get the science fiction stuff, and it comes together,
00:47and it's made of awesome.
00:49When you walk down the street in a top hat and spats, you are causing a riot.
00:52You're making a statement.
00:53There's a sense of humor and humanity.
00:55There's kind of a longing for that time when technology was more accessible to people.
00:58A reinterpretation of humanity's interaction with machinery.
01:02Technology can actually be ours and not a cold, alienated thing.
01:04We are not reenactors or even, you know, recreationists.
01:07We are re-imaginers.
01:11Steampunk is telling us we need to re-imagine what we want from our technology in the future.
01:17It forces you to look back in order to look forward.
01:23Steampunk is telling us we need to re-imagine what we want from our technology in the future.