Ah, thank you for the unfading. Sometimes comments that seem to be vaguely political gets downvoted kinda fast in this site. But nevertheless, I was just trying to connect the theme of this short story to a well-known phenomenon of "retrograde nostalgia" that is not just a symptom of political right but also to the political left. In that regard I view Gibson and this story as quite a visionary, predicting the cultural sentiments that would define the neoliberal era, before Derrida and Fisher.

And also, there are many literature papers on the connection between the Gernsback Continuum and hauntology on the Internet - I've read a good piece before but the PDF link is kinda broken at the moment and cannot find it anymore.