This book has had more influence on pop culture as we know it than any other.
Oh yeah, I agree, definitely. Cyberspace, viruses, the matrix, and they're just the ones off the top of my head.
My reference to Ghost in the Shell was more direct. I'm jumping ahead a bit now, so I'll revert to spoilers, but:
The scenes where they're pulling the heist or whatever in Part II and Molly is physically there and Case is using viruses and bypassing the ice is remarkably, remarkably similar to certain scenes in Ghost in the Shell 2: Man Machine Interface where Mokoto Aramaki is changing bodies and sending viruses.I'm really interested, reading this, to see where so many of these ideas that are so common place today have originated.