Our cyberpunk STEM folks certainly do not appear to be losing their very deep steampunk roots. The Demiurge of Plato that became the Watchmaker of Galileo is now the MetaSteveJobs of the Cosmos… wow, those technoscientists really know how to evolve a metaphor literally inches from whence it started.
World Science Festival Video : Rebooting the Cosmos: Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?.