cyberpunk.
A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
Meaning & usage
A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.
A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
Where this word comes from
From cyber- + -punk, coined by American writer and software developer Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.
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