> Watching TV, by yourself, on a huge screen, is not the future. Augmenting reality is. I guess the main reason why this novel (and the trilogy that it's part

> Watching TV, by yourself, on a huge screen, is not the future. Augmenting reality is. I guess the main reason why this novel (and the trilogy that it's part of) is centered on AR is that Gibson had already done the completely immersive "hyper-VR" thing in Neuromancer (and the trilogy it was part of), so he probably wanted to explore something new...