William Gibson: the man who saw tomorrow

I found this article from July 27, 2014 on The Guardian, so I thought I'd share it with everyone (since we're discussing Neuromancer soon):    I'm including a bit from the article, which includes this quote from author Cory Doctorow:
"Neuromancer," says novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow, "remains a vividly imagined allegory for the world of the 1980s, when the first seeds of massive, globalised wealth-disparity were planted, and when the inchoate rumblings of technological rebellion were first felt. A generation later, we're living in a future that is both nothing like the Gibson future and instantly recognisable as its less stylish, less romantic cousin. Instead of zaibatsus [large conglomerates] run by faceless salarymen, we have doctrinaire thrusting young neocons and neoliberals who want to treat everything from schools to hospitals as businesses."