The gender stereotypes might be backward-looking (we'll make up for it later in the day), but the technological vision is on the mark, right down to email, e-commerce and online banking. Of course, these weren't the only people imagining an electronic, connected world during the 1960s.

In 1964, the futurist Arthur C. Clarke peered into the future and saw our connectedness coming. By 2000, he predicted, "We could be in instant contact with each other, wherever we may be," and "it will be possible in that age ... for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali just as well as he could from London."

And then Marshall McLuhan understood the trend too. He saw electronic media turning our world into a social one, a world where services like Facebook and Twitter would make complete sense. You can watch the prescient Marshall McLuhan right here.

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