cyberpunknoun/ˈsaɪ.bə.pʌŋk/

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  literaturemediapublishingA 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.

  • But by 1987, cyberpunk had become a cliche. Other writers had turned the form into formula: implant wetware (biological computer chips), government by multinational corporations, street-wise, leather-jacketed, amphetamine-loving protagonists and decayed orbital colonies.
  • Cyberpunk stories are set in a futuristic, dystopic environment—the opposite of utopian—in which computer technology plays an important role. […] The protagonists of cyberpunk stories are technologically proficient, lonely adventurers struggling with issues of identity and forced to use computer skills to fight menacing forces of domination.
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  A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.

  • The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.
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  A writer of cyberpunk fiction.

  • […] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd^([sic]), Bruce Sterling […]
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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.

  • A more technologically elaborate current of microtonal music can be found at M.I.T and Berklee College of Music, where R. Boulanger works in exotic equal temperaments and non-octave scales (E₆₀ and the 13th root of 3, i.e. the Bohlen-Pierce scale) using the CSOUND acoustic compiler, the Mathews radio drum and various MIDI synthesizers; nearby, E. Mullen performs cyberpunk music in E₁₉ and the 13th root of 3.
  • At Meredith we stayed up all night listening to doof doof cyberpunk music and I saw you cry for the first time, at four in the morning bottle of ice tea and vodka in hand I saw your real face and something changed.