Oh, and the difference between tech noir and cyberpunk is that tech noir deals with the fall of mankind through technological advancements. It often deals with whether science is going too far. It portrays the world as a retrograding wasteland of death and destruction, instead of benifiting from technology. An example is Bladerunner, Minority Report, and other Phillip K. Dick novels. Cyberpunk often deals with the dimensions of reality and virtual reality. Cyberpunks try to define what reality really is, because by definition, reality is space and time. But what if you create those two dimensions technologically? The Matrix deals with a little of this topic. Meaning of the word 'cyberpunk' could be something like 'anarchy via machines' or 'machine/computer rebel movement'. Read Snowbound, Nueromancer, and New Latania for some novel sources. The technology of cyberpunk is ultratechnology, which mixes genetic material from animal to animal, from animal to man, or from man to animal. This technology raises human embryos for organ transplants, creates machines that think like humans and humans that think like machines. This is a technology designed to keep people within the 'system' that dominates the lives of most 'ordinary' people. This is the science of controlling human functions and of electronic, mechanical and biological control systems designed to replace them.
So, to put it simple, tech noir is the fall of mankind through technological retrogration, and cyberpunk is displaying the changes and perhaps flaws of technology (specifically computer AI and genetics) through progress.
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