Cyberpunks and Hackers Cyberpunks and Hackers Cyberpunks Being a cyberpunk is a lifestyle. Cyberpunks are hackers, crackers, and phreakers. Just being a webhead or computer geek is not enough. The cyberpunks are at the core of this thing we call the net.
Cyberpunks spend way to much time at their computers.
Remember the net has around for a long time, the only thing that has changed is that there are now a lot more people using it. The author William Gibson problably the most widely known cyberpunk author. He wrote the trilogy Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive . His world is set in the near future describing a rather dark world where corporations rule the world, and information is power. This world is populated with cyberjocks, super hackers who run the web of the future to steal information.