The name of the driver, Gibson, is a direct tribute to the author of the novel The Neuromancer, William Gibson. The ultimate fate of Gibson when his car goes berserk is similar to what the antihero of the novel, Case, suffered prior to the story. These subtle nods to a novel released four years prior was a nice nod by the writer.
Most people who claim this episode had nothing to do with the larger Boomer narrative seem to miss that the car itself is a Boomer of sorts. Increasingly augmented with cybernetic hardware and then attached to Gibson's own mind, it suffers the same sort of psychotic break that other (non-S-Class) Boomers do when they achieve sapience. It's just another example of how dangerous AI is in the larger world of BGC.
Most people who claim this episode had nothing to do with the larger Boomer narrative seem to miss that the car itself is a Boomer of sorts. Increasingly augmented with cybernetic hardware and then attached to Gibson's own mind, it suffers the same sort of psychotic break that other (non-S-Class) Boomers do when they achieve sapience. It's just another example of how dangerous AI is in the larger world of BGC.
