cyberpunk

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
• A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.

Origin

• cyber- + -punk, as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.