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单词 cyberpunk
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cyberpunkn.

Brit. /ˈsʌɪbəpʌŋk/, U.S. /ˈsaɪbərˌpəŋk/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cyber- comb. form, punk n.1
Etymology: < cyber- comb. form + punk n.1Apparently coined by Bruce Bethke (see quot. 1983 at sense 1a).
1.
a. A subgenre of science fiction typified by a bleak, high-tech setting in which a lawless subculture exists within an oppressive society dominated by computer technology.In quot. 1983 as the title of a story of this type.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > science fiction, etc. > [noun] > cyber-punk
cyberpunk1983
1983 B. Bethke in Amazing Stories Nov. 94 (title) Cyberpunk.
1984 Washington Post 30 Dec. (Bk. World section) 9/3 Surely the wild and woolly ‘outlaw fantasy’ Waldrop began producing in the '70s played some part in shaping the esthetics and literary style of the ‘cyberpunk’ movement.
1988 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Oct. 1180/3 The subgenre of science fiction now widely known as Cyberpunk, in which life in the computerized jungle of the near future can only be survived by young street-wise masters of software interfaces and the arts of combat.
2001 Dreamwatch Oct. 80/2 Adroitly mixing grandiose space opera with the darkness and occasional cynicism of Cyberpunk, Banks' Culture books are unsettling, fiendishly clever and frequently hilarious.
b. A character in, or the author of, a work of this type.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > science fiction, etc. > [noun] > cyber-punk > writer or protagonist of
cyberpunk1984
1984 Washington Post 2 Dec. (Bk. World section) 23/2 Cyberpunks in a computerized future.
1984 Washington Post 30 Dec. (Bk. World section) 9/1 About the closest thing here to a self-willed esthetic ‘school’ would be the purveyors of bizarre hard-edged, high-tech stuff, who have on occasion been referred to as ‘cyberpunks’—Sterling, Gibson, Shiner, Cadigan, Bear.
1991 Midnight Zoo 1 v. 18/2 I conjured my notion of telespace—a computer-created virtual reality—and telelinkers—those who enter telespace—independently of William Gibson's cyberspace and cyberpunks.
2008 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Apr. 15 Ken Macleod, a writer once described as a ‘Trotskyist libertarian cyberpunk’, has penned several award-winning visions of the future.
2. A person who accesses computer networks illegally; a hacker.
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society > computing and information technology > [noun] > act of accessing > without authorization > one who performs
hacker1963
hack1972
computer hacker1976
cyberpunk1989
black hat1990
1989 C. Stoll Cuckoo's Egg xlvi. 245 This was a sensitive medical device, not a plaything for some cyberpunk. Some poor computer geek, indeed.
1991 K. Hafner & J. Markoff Cyberpunk i. 123 He had..met several such ‘cyberpunks’ and had sparred with dozens of them inside the Stanford computers.
2002 D. Verton Hacker Diaries iii. 61 It was Knesek's ability to make sense of the data in the Mitnick case that helped send the notorious criminal cyberpunk to federal prison.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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