It's a 30-year-old book ... older than many people who are making viable VR a thing now. Neuromancer sparked the otherwise naive notion of what VR would be like

It's a 30-year-old book ... older than many people who are making viable VR a thing now. Neuromancer sparked the otherwise naive notion of what VR would be like, but now we've developed and normalized a good chunk of the technology & language (verbal & visual), in a society which has grown accustomed to pervasive computer interfaces (I sit here with 8 on my desk alone, and totaling 22 in this room). Reality has taken a somewhat different & concrete direction from what Gibson fluidly predicted. The wonder of a hypothetical world of people jacking into their sector of the matrix surrounded by bright geometries has been replaced by the mundanity of a real world of people staring at Facebook et al; we live the electronic consensus-hallucination of massive data, and are not impressed by someone telling us in abstract terms how wonderful it will be.