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Go back to the 1990's, Gibson publishes Virtual Light that predicts that the bay bridge would be one massive homeless encampment.

It was clear 30 ish years ago to him how it would turn out.

It might be appalling but it should not be shocking.

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Gibson was writing about California specifically, and the Bay Area specifically. That state and that part of it had already had, since the 1960s at least, a reputation for attracting homeless people from across the country thanks to its clement weather. He could have merely been extrapolating from that and not necessarily prophetic about any of the issues today.

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