Cyberpunk emerged as a subgenre of science fiction in the early 1980s, blending high-tech settings with societal decay. The term "Cyberpunk" itself is a portmanteau of "cybernetics" and "punk," reflecting a world where advanced technology coexists with a breakdown of social order. The genre is characterized by its focus on futuristic technology,

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Our future must involve repurposing and creating new things from what we already have (instead of 20th century “destroy it all and build something completely different” modernism). Our futurism is not nihilistic like cyberpunk and it avoids steampunk’s potentially quasi-reactionary tendencies: it is about ingenuity, generativity, independence, and... See more

Technology changes our remembrance of the past, our experience of the present, and our imagination of the future by blurring the lines between the three categories, and introducing different forms of understanding and meaning-making to all three – We remember the future, imagine the present, and experience the past. The phenomenon of “ruin porn” is... See more