What William Gibson's "New Rose Hotel" Got Wrong About the Future

Christopher Walken in the film adaptation of William Gibson's short story "New Rose Hotel." Avalanche Home Entertainment

What did the William Gibson get wrong in his other wise superb short story "New Rose Hotel," which was published in 1984 (the same year as his groundbreaking Neuromancer) and made into an equally superb but grossly unappreciated film in 1998? That in the future, corporations would not only dominate the world in the near absence of state power but have a