> Hmm... it's been a long time since I read Gibson, but wasn't his cyberworld mainly populated by hackers?
AFAICR: Hackers, the corporations they prey on, and the employees and consultants employed by the corporations.
One would think, also the clients paying the corporations for the stuff the employees/consultants produce, but I honestly can't recall; they probably featured very little in the plot, and it's been if not over then very close to thirty years since I read it.
What made Stephenson's Metaverse different was that it was the kind of place where (e.g.) high schoolers would go on dates. Gibson's cyberspace was dark, dark, dark.