Idoru is also the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. It was written 20 years ago. Gibson has a proven record of being eerily prescient.
Yes. I actually came to think about that just recently. The whole scene popped into my mind when making coffee in the morning. It made me feel a bit dizzy actually, and it made me think of what other things that are looking more and more probable.
Anonymous-type groups posing in 3d avatars comes to mind.
I remembered that at the time,I found it implausible that it was possible to go online in Neuromancer without connecting to a fiber or something and that it was just handwaved away. He was right and I was wrong, it was not important.