American Dreams: Did William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ Blueprint Our Reality?

Lots of things to take issue with in this piece (among other things, the author seems to imply that Gibson coined the term "dub music") but this bit raises an interesting point about the ways that canonical near future books like Neuromancer and Snowcrash actually shape the near future:

"Thirty years after the novel’s publication, it’s difficult to tell whether Gibson foresaw the future or whether the future, designed by technologists who idolized Gibson’s novels, self-consciously imitated his novel."