ELTWeekly Issue #13, Word of the week: cyberpunk

cyberpunk • SY-ber-punk

1 : science fiction dealing with future urban societies dominated by computer technology

2 : an opportunistic computer hacker

Example Sentence:

Cyberpunk — with its androids and cyborgs and human-electronic networks — almost turns reading into a computer game.

To know more about the word ‘cyberpunk’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Feb.02.2009