You might want to consider a rewrite on that headline. Were those cars autonomous and self-aware, making bad decisions on their own that resulted in the deaths of people? Or were there human drivers operating those vehicles?

Stephensen was much better at describing a socio-political reality than Gibson was. Gibson’s Neuromancer always read more like the text to a graphic novel. I’m not saying it’s bad — just simpler. I loved Neruomancer until I read Snow Crash. I read the latter multiple times. Never felt compelled to do the same with the…