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cyberpunk

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(science fiction, 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.

日本語の意味

情報技術やコンピュータ、仮想現実などの要素が、社会秩序の崩壊や急激な変革とともに描かれる、ディストピア的なSFのサブジャンル。

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At the film festival, cyberpunk took center stage with gritty tales of hackers navigating collapsing megacities and virtual realities.

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その映画祭では、サイバーパンクというハイテク・ディストピア系のSFが注目を集め、ハッカーたちが崩壊寸前のメガシティや仮想現実を行き来する生々しい物語が上映された。

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But by 1987, cyberpunk had become a cliche. Other writers had turned the form into formula: implant wetware (biological computer chips), government by multinational corporations, street-wise, leather-jacketed, amphetamine-loving protagonists and decayed orbital colonies.

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(countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.

The film “The Matrix” redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.

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(countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.

[…] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd, Bruce Sterling […]

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(music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.

A more technologically elaborate current of microtonal music can be found at M.I.T and Berklee College of Music, where R. Boulanger works in exotic equal temperaments and non-octave scales (E₆₀ and the 13th root of 3, i.e. the Bohlen-Pierce scale) using the CSOUND acoustic compiler, the Mathews radio drum and various MIDI synthesizers; nearby, E. Mullen performs cyberpunk music in E₁₉ and the 13th root of 3.

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