I agree with you that we tend to ignore our immediate history and not see things for how they were - but, how do we fix this, exactly?  By telling each other about these articles .. I was around in those days, my eyes have been rolling and rolling over the years as we see Hot New Stuff get released that is really just Old Stuff Ignored, Re-invented.  There are definitely cycles of insomnia in our culture.<p>So for me anyway its great to see these predictions coming out of the woodwork, and to recall some of the great, fine essays that were produced in the early years of electronic media consumption.  So much great stuff, lost to the electrons of time..