In the Data Magazine there were futuristic-like machines which I found rather interesting. The images of machines made me think of the steam punk culture which is a fantasized exaggeration of the Victorian and the Industrial era. Similar to steam punk culture the Dataist images suggest a connection or morph of human and machine, a cyborg. Another important connection is to the mechanical effect of war. During and after World War I, men felt like machines. They had no emotions, their personal thoughts did not matter, and they were simply killing tools that preformed blindly ordered tasks.

Some of the images within the magazine seemed to be random technological objects. I am not entirely sure what purpose all of these images were to serve, but I would guess much of their meaning lies in symbolism and the mechanical lack of emotion.

I also found it interesting that none of the images focused on the beauty of scenic landscape, which was typical of the past. Instead there is a celebration of and a hopeful future in technological advancement, human invention rather than nature.