[markgoho]

the greatest Futurist of our time was Alfred Toffler cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler

His books, Future Shock (1970), The Third Wave (1980), and Powershift (1990) represent peak prediction literature based on a philosophy that since 1950 we've entered the Third Wave (first wave being neolithic => agriculture, second being agriculture => industrial, third wave being industrial => post-industrial)

If you read this article and got interested in this kind of thing, check out Toffler. Nearly everything he predicted has come true (minus us mostly living in underwater dwellings, which in his defense, hasn't come true YET).