... wasteful, is that if you place a solar panel somewhere, collect energy, convert it to electricity, run it along a cable, and power a heater to heat a building… Just painting the building black could work more efficiently here. In a future world, where people try to be efficient, things could look very steampunk :). read more
We will have to agree upon a definition for “Steampunk” to answer this question, since different authors, creators and costume designers have vastly different takes. But let’s assume we mean the wide adoption of steam-based technology in every day life (just as cyberpunk usually means the wide adoption of cybernetics). read more
(Steampunk Bible, pg. 9) Steampunk encompasses a sense of longing not for the actual past, but for a futuristic past that never was, and turns that longing into artistic expressions of music, literature, art, and entertainment. Steampunk is an aesthetic, but rarely a lazy one. read more