Gibson also wrote on how our abilities to predict the future are superbly limited in his 2003 essay In The Visegrips Of Dr Satan: http://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2003/01/?m=1#90248174
>The electrons streaming into a child’s eye from the screen of the wooden television are as physical as anything else. As physical as the neurons subsequently moving along that child’s optic nerves.
He's from the school of American SF writing that Stanisław Lem criticised (Lem wrote actual criticism as well as his SF that's in the form of criticism of works that don't actually exist, which was translated as "A Perfect Vacuum").
I don't have much time for this myself, preferring writers to speculate about things they actually know something about - but he's been very successful.
The cells that "move along" nerves in the PNS to support neural development are Schwann cells that would not be considered "neurons", but that's a minor slip in terminology. The basics is entirely correct.
So now you've learned what was wrong with that sentence.
He's writing about how these things impact human life, and details like this don't really matter at that level.