Nothing triggers my romantic tendencies like steampunk. Technology as it should have been -- powerful, gorgeous and human-scale. The last time a single individual could seriously advance the state of the art, while it was still an art.
I am in complete agreement with this sentiment. I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about how each science and/or technology goes through what I call the "hobbyist phase," where the standard working unit in the field is the interested individual in his/her garage, barn, basement, what-have-you, before things get so big and so complex that they pass beyond the reach of the dedicated hobbyist and into the realm of the industrial firm, the research lab, and the deep-pocketed monomaniac.
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I am in complete agreement with this sentiment. I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about how each science and/or technology goes through what I call the "hobbyist phase," where the standard working unit in the field is the interested individual in his/her garage, barn, basement, what-have-you, before things get so big and so complex that they pass beyond the reach of the dedicated hobbyist and into the realm of the industrial firm, the research lab, and the deep-pocketed monomaniac.