Why would a 1980s story about unguarded AI, private armies and multi-billionaires chasing eternal life be relevant in 2024?

The later Gibson starts looking familiar here, with a plot centered around artefacts of the postmodern life and several different strands of narration slowly creeping together. A little too slowly for much of the book, you could easily have trimmed this by 50 pages, but I guess God wanted it that way.