A couple of things: 1. I wouldn't call The Matrix cyberpunk. That's the first time I heard that; and 2. I don't see cyberpunk as having died in the 1980s, so

A couple of things: 1. I wouldn't call The Matrix cyberpunk. That's the first time I heard that; and 2. I don't see cyberpunk as having died in the 1980s, so much as it was simply the zeitgeist of that era and there have been lots of those in sci-fi (and more generally). For example, if you look at sci-fi from the 1960s you have lots of material about mental powers (eg telepathy in Stranger and a Strange Land). Star Trek was a utopia that mirrored a rosy view of America. All of this in an era of personal freedom and society wrestling with the lingering injustices of slavery a century earlier I think is no accident. What happened in the 1980s was the rise of Japan and the loss of manufacturing jobs in America. This stoked fears that corporations would replace governments and we'd face a dystopian but technological future. I still see cyberpunk as interlinked with anti-Japanese xenophobia. So the issue with cyberpunk is that this xenophobia faded, the genre didn't really evolve (and probably peaked with Blade Runner) and apart from the Internet virtually nothing predicted in cyberpunk came to pass. We still have governments. We don't live in a dystopian future (mostly). There are enhanced humans with implants. But I wouldn't describe it as dying. We simply moved on.