cyberpunk

Meanings

1. 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.
2. A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
3. A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
4. A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.

Etymology

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.