A brief excerpt from the "Future is Now" Podcast, hosted by Davisé Sharlin. 2nd Season, 4th Episode, [i]Contrast & Compare: Steam/Electripunk - I[/i] ". . . Now with the introductory pleasantries accomplished, allow me to provide a brief explanation of classical 'Steampunk'. We know little of Steampunk, and what we do know is uncertain. It was a method of literary science fiction were Electrical Power was never discovered, acting as an exploration of an alternate history where human reliance on steam, hydro, and coal power continued to develop. Initially, it was identifiable by it's romanticism of Old-Victorian Era values, as Electricity was treated with contempt and fear during it's conception, similar to how Plasmatica was perceived when it was first developed back in the 2200s. However, as Electricity began dominating the market for power and labor, Steampunk was soon identified by it's nature to criticize and satirize usage of fossil fuels, as the greater public was growing more keen of the effect these outdated power sources were having on old earth . . . A brief excerpt from the "Future is Now" Podcast, hosted by Davisé Sharlin. 2nd Season, 5th Episode, [i]Contrast & Compare: Steam/Electripunk - II[/i] ". . . To recap, the last episode ended with a brief touch on the relationship between the Steampunk and Electripunk variations of science fiction. I'd like to continue with that, if you all would bare with me for a bit longer. Now, as covered last time, Steampunk acted as a grandiose 'what if' scenario for twentieth and twenty-first century humanity. Electripunk acted as a similar gateway into another life for those peoples living in the twenty-fourth, and now even fifth, century. Considering what life would be like without Plasmatica-Technology, key aspects of Electripunk include a lack of extensive space travel, commonly only extending to colonization of mars, and on rare occasions pluto, in the Original Solar System. However, some Electripunk medias don't even include this, with humanity barely reaching the moon. The latter is somewhat inaccurate, as some rather in depth research reveals that Humans had been landing on the moon since the second phase of steampunk science fiction was popularized . . ."