Meh. Nothing really new in it. If you read Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire, you'd see the introduction to the world of the new, with improbable child geniuses -- and done much better against a European backdrop. The caper is a well known trope. The analysts behind the protagonists and the JITT are swiped from A Deepness in the Sky. And the wacky University hi-jinks was done by Stephenson way back in The Big U.

Which is a pity, because Robert Gu could have been a great character. Here's a man who was a complete bastard by all accounts, with a gift. Now he's dealing with future shock, and a world that no longer cares... and he can't make it care. And yet he's flat and off, thinking about "how to dominate" a 13 year old girl. No-one, not even the complete bastards, thinks like that.

So yeah. Not one of his better works.