How does the existence of AIs acting as voodoo gods in cyberspace change human society?

What type of an entity is a corporation, and why do corporations have so much power in the novel?

Why does Marly not try to escape death at the end of the novel? What does she gain from her experience of finding the artist she's looking for?

What does the end of the novel, where Angie becomes a rising simstim star, bode for the future?

Does wealth necessarily make Virek evil and inhuman? Why?

Would it be disastrous if Virek found what he's looking for, a way to live forever, as Marly thinks it would?

What allows Turner to stop being a "squirrel" coming back for more punishment and retire to live a life with Sally and his son?