I think that basically he just always writes novels set in the sociotechnical landscape of approximately 2015, (space station and strong AI excluded).
As we approach 2015, his novels become less and less far-flung. In ca. 2005, I used to find myself in Gibsonesque situations about once or twice a year, now it's monthly...
INTERVIEWER: You’ve written that science fiction is never about the future, that it is always instead a treatment of the present.
GIBSON: There are dedicated futurists who feel very seriously that they are extrapolating a future history. My position is that you can’t do that without having the present to stand on. Nobody can know the real future. And novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. As soon as a work is complete, it will begin to acquire a patina of anachronism. I know that from the moment I add the final period, the text is moving steadily forward into the real future.
I'd like to find myself in a city where Gibsonesque situations are the default entertainment. And the job of an entertainer might then become close to a calling.
As we approach 2015, his novels become less and less far-flung. In ca. 2005, I used to find myself in Gibsonesque situations about once or twice a year, now it's monthly...
Pretty soon we'll be living there.