Is Steampunk Dying?

We strip-mine your underground cultureTake the bite out and rinse it cleanGive ourselves credit for creating itThen sell it back to youAt twice the price- Fleshdunce, by The Dead KennedysWill Steampunk survive being the next big thing? There were a couple of things this morning which some might interpret at signs of the coming Steam-pocalypse.First is the mere existence of this story in the New