I happen to think that the story is unfilmable. Gibson's vision serves to remind us that our primary experience with the internet is still severely 2-dimensional, and will probably remain so for quite some time. The data and computing power required to create some sort of coherent 3-d virtual environment that is convincing enough to attract a significant population is probably fifty years away. Let's file that under long-term predictions by towers of ilium.
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