@thomasfuchs
I've been thinking about this framing a lot lately. I was always a big fan of Burke's Connections series and books, but also a skeptic of the "great man" theory of history, which I see these predictions as an extension of.
Do you think the problem is with these specific predictions, or with the idea of attributing sea changes to individual technologies instead of a confluence of sociotechnical changes that accrete over time?