I find his stuff hit or miss. I enjoyed Neuromancer and Burning Chrome and Pattern Recognition; really didn’t care about Mona Lisa Overdrive (but love the name) and the Difference Engine.
This one? Meh. A couple of interesting ideas - “locative art” where you where a GPS and Virtual Reality glasses and when you stand in a specific location you see an art piece that someone has set up there.
But overall - he takes a few different plot lines and alternates across them per chapter - you know they are going to come together but there needs to be a much more compelling reason than what he provides.
It’s all hat and no cattle - Gibson can evoke a sense of cool intrigue with the best of them, but if there is no payoff then his stuff is even more disappointing…
Sorry if everyone else has moved on; I just got to this over vacation…