Cyberpunk 2088 | Retouching
It is a subgenre of science fiction, known for reflecting dystopian visions of the future in which advanced technology is combined with a low standard of living. Originally the term cyberpunk was used to refer to the literary movement led by Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and John Shirley that emerged during the 1980s within science fiction literature, being used for the first time in that sense by Gardner Dozois in 1984.3 Dozois was probably inspired by the title of a story by Bruce Bethke.2 Cyberpunk gets its name from the addition of the prefix cyber- (related to computer networks)4 to the word punk (referring to its rebellious character ). In it, science (and especially computer science and cybernetics) usually generates or interacts with some kind of social or cultural paradigm shift.
