That was one of the more surreal things I've read in a while. Every time I read Gibson's works I'm struck by how different our present is from his imagined near-future, but simultaneously how similar.

We have crushing government oppression, staggering wealth inequality, corporations that ignore laws at will, media personalities running the country (literally, in some places), and the internet: once hailed as the great equalizer, now the opiate of the masses.

We're living in a cyberpunk dystopia.