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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cyberpunk</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cybercrud.html" title="cybercrud"/><link rel="next" href="cyberspace.html" title="cyberspace"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cyberpunk</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cybercrud.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cyberspace.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cyberpunk"/><dt xmlns="" id="cyberpunk"><b>cyberpunk</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/si:´ber·puhnk/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] A
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subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel
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<i class="citetitle">Neuromancer</i> (though its roots go back through Vernor
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Vinge's <i class="citetitle">True Names</i> (see the <a href="../pt03.html#bibliography" title="Bibliography">Bibliography</a> in Appendix C) to John
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Brunner's 1975 novel <i class="citetitle">The Shockwave Rider</i>). Gibson's
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near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture
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enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the
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future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naïve and
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tremendously stimulating. Gibson's work was widely imitated, in particular
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by the short-lived but innovative <i class="citetitle">Max Headroom</i> TV
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series. See <a href="cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a>, <a href="../I/ice.html"><i class="glossterm">ice</i></a>,
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<a href="../J/jack-in.html"><i class="glossterm">jack in</i></a>, <a href="../G/go-flatline.html"><i class="glossterm">go flatline</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Since 1990 or so, popular culture has included a movement or fashion
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trend that calls itself ‘cyberpunk’, associated especially with
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the rave/techno subculture. Hackers have mixed feelings about this. On
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the one hand, self-described cyberpunks too often seem to be shallow
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trendoids in black leather who have substituted enthusiastic blathering
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about technology for actually learning and <span class="emphasis"><em>doing</em></span> it.
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Attitude is no substitute for competence. On the other hand, at least
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cyberpunks are excited about the right things and properly respectful of
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hacking talent in those who have it. The general consensus is to tolerate
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them politely in hopes that they'll attract people who grow into being true
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hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cybercrud.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cyberspace.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cybercrud </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> cyberspace</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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