Our future must involve repurposing and creating new things from what we already have (instead of 20th century “destroy it all and build something completely different” modernism). Our futurism is not nihilistic like cyberpunk and it avoids steampunk’s potentially quasi-reactionary tendencies: it is about ingenuity, generativity, independence, and... See more

I’m starting to think these atmospheres may come from an attempt to develop universes in which technology took a different turn, with less screens and more touch friendly. Also maybe there’s an attempt to create a distance from the current social-media-influenced world?