Scifi Thoughts

​It's the early 1800s and before Rudolf Diesel and Henry Ford. Electricity is still a lab experiment. But it doesn't matter. We don't need any of what those guys were selling. The true motors of Innovation are started with firing up a boiler, copper or brass tubing, and driving pistons of power. Your clockwork butler is powered with a small coal boiler. Your self driving carriage is steam powered. You need to leave London and go visit the colonies? The first class traveler travels on airship powered with steam generators and handled with pneumatic control systems. Steampunk-- It's a big and visual movement at the conventions: ladies in corsets trimmed with copper tubing, men in shin high-boots and victorian jackets but a steam powered blunderbuss at his side. Steampunk is about fashion, high adventure, and genteel conduct. (Tone change) It probably shouldn't contain the term punk. Unlike it's cousin, Cyberpunk, steampunk isn't focused on high-tech lowlifes but instead the characters are well educated and sa