China's steampunk covid response
Alas, more contagious variantshave tested "dynamic zero covid" approach to breaking point.
While Disney’s steampunk “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, released May 27th, may not be wholly faithful to the original, its iconography is instantly recognisable. This is a credit not only to Lewis Carroll himself, but also to the many artists (and one in particular) who have over the years turned his words into images.
From The Economist’s 1843 magazine
蒸汽龐克（英語：Steampunk）是一種流行於20世紀80年代至90年代初的科幻題材，顯著特徵為故事都設定於一個蒸汽科技達到巔峰的架空世界。這類故事對距今已較遙遠的工業革命時代的科技進行了極大的誇張，創建出一個與當今或未來科技文明都不同的、依賴於簡單機械裝置的科技世界。
蒸汽龐克多以維多利亞時代為背景，將蒸汽的力量無限擴大，虛擬出一個蒸汽科技至上的時代。這種文化應該起源於蒸汽革命之後，人們對於科技的力量—「蒸汽」的神話化，它假設在第一次工業革命產物發展到極致的人類文明時期。以蒸汽動力為主的重型鋼鐵機具做為人類社會發展所依賴的主要動力，並依此發明出各種交通飛行或科學上的成就。例如利用蒸汽為動力的飛行船、蒸汽火車以及特殊交通工具。「蒸汽龐克」一詞出現於20世紀下半葉，但從今天的觀點來看，第一、第二次工業革命時代所產生的許多科幻小說作品都可以歸入該類別。當年人們的創作多是推崇科技的力量，而今天人們創作這類故事則多是以對早期科技文化的懷舊與復古風格為目的。蒸汽龐克的懷舊風格與崇尚未來科技的時尚風格形成鮮明對比。
Alice through the ages
From Lewis Carroll’s own drawings to a controversial comic
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賽博朋克- Wikipedia
- 簡 - [ 轉為繁體網頁 ]賽博朋克（cyberpunk，是cybernetics與punk的結合詞），又稱數字朋克、賽伯朋克、電腦叛客、網路叛客，是科幻小說的一個分支，以計算機或信息技術為主題，小說中通常有社會秩序受破壞的情節。現在賽博朋克的情節通常圍繞黑客、人工智能及大型企業之間的 ...請到WSJ.COM去看一部影片介紹，將電腦等產品的心部分拆裝到19世紀維多利亞時代的產品之外殼。
類似這種發揮想像力的產品設計裝設工場， 稱為 STEAMPUNK WORKSHOP
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. It is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings tend to be less obviously dystopian.
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