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I really meant any internal heating to match and maintain 37C, which is really a lot of effort to go to for medical devices...

In the US, many of the western railroads probably qualified as mega corps. One of the subsidies they got from the US Govt was...

I was referring to the quotes from Jeter himself who coined the term.

Well, I would disagree with that sentiment, in a couple of ways. "-punk" is about rejection of the status quo - whatever it happens to...

Yes, that makes sense. The punk bit is just there as a reference to cyberpunk and alternate technological development, not to make me...

This link seems pretty typical of sites explaining the origins of the term: What is Steampunk — Definition, Origins, and Examples What...

Why not? Because steampunk is a reaction to cyberpunk, not merely a time-shifted mimic of cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is about the...

I think Moyà will get even weirder when she starts tasting human. Which she probably will in due course, again for the obvious reason.

Why TF does an android (even one designed for elderly care etc) need human body temperature? Is it trying to infiltrate the human...

Not really, it’s generally defined as around 1870-1900 so firmly late Victorian. It was much more an American thing than British, of...

A couple of friends of mine have had much more enthusiastic reactions to the phrase “I fenced for Oxford” than was justified.

Of course, one of the amusing things about playing sport, in my case rugby, to University level is when you talk to Americans and...

The Gilded Age was startlingly similar to our own era - which is basically cyberpunk without the readily available prosthetics, pity, I...

The Steampunk era was still about the Great Empires. Mercantilism was a thing hence Robber Barons but the East India Company was still...

Steampunk evokes the traits of the actual Victorian era, and that was a time of great empires and political machinations. Corporations...