[@Terminal][@The Scotsman] 

Well there's always a way to find some kind of connection. Have we decided exactly why, and where he disappeared? And what caused it? (Or if he's still alive or dead?) Maybe my character isn't directly connected, but maybe I somehow saw Davidson later than any other character by happenstance. Which would provide insight about his location. Maybe the company I'm involved with had something to do with the disappearance. Whether directly or from connections with another gang that was involved/negatively effected by is actions/with his gear selling. 

If every character was too closely connected, might make the world seem unnecessarily small. But I think I could think of a decent enough reason to be related, if I had a timeline of the character and how we're connecting him with all the other characters.

[@The Harbinger of Ferocity]

Looking at people discussing it online, because on the Wikipedia it only mentions that it does point them out but barely references them in the original book but clarifies in later material. This is how someone explained it.

"In the world of Cyberpunk 2020, in the late 80's, they discovered a neural-networking technology that allowed them to interface with human brains, as well as create artificial brains very easily. This means that all the research money went into creating those kinds of computer chips, and so the computer chips WE use, are not as developed. That's why some things, like AI, work very well in Cyberpunk 2020, and other things, like traditional computers, are very much still stuck in the 90's. Moore's Law was never a thing, and processing speed did not double every year. Instead neural nets grew every year, creating a very different computer revolution."

So if they can create artificial brains as chips more advanced than we currently have, I could only assume they'd make AI smarter/more complicated too. But yes, I agree that it would be a rarity and probably only used by the big wigs of society.