cyberpunk

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Synoniemen

hacker

cyber-terrorist

cracker

Vertalingen

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ciberpunk

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hacker

Etymologie (Engels)

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.