Thanks. Re-reading it, it reminds me a little of Johnny Mnemonic -- which was woefully out-of-date as soon as it came out! Like Short Circuit 2 which @countrylover and I watched last night (and the first one, first!) -- at one point the robot says "I've got 500 megabytes of storage!" LOL.
Both movies were awesome in the re-watching though. I should make a post about them. Lots of stuff I missed as a child.