- 作為第一次工業革命的重要標誌 火車的發明似乎意味著蒸汽時代的到來 一直到今天 這些維多利亞時代的符號: 鐵釘,螺絲懷錶,齒輪,防毒面具,飛行員眼鏡,倫敦上空沉沉的霧,理工美學的濃郁的建築...組成了一種獨有的風格:蒸汽朋克 這種風格的代表作 有大家熟知的<天空之城><蒸汽男孩> 電影<metropolis> 還有小說<The Difference Engine>
There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.
<The Difference Engine> by William Gibson