While this is interesting, most of the facts were openly being discussed and are not huge leaps of faith to see coming.<p>Underground Economies - You had a huge recession in the 1980&#x27;s. People were not happy with the government and employment spiked to 9%. This idea wasn&#x27;t a huge stretch considering the political and economic environments at the time.<p>Computer Hacking - Security was non-existent in those days and a myriad of high profile attacks had already occurred: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Timeline_of_computer_security_hacker_history" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Timeline_of_computer_security_...</a>  It&#x27;s a not a huge leap to see that security would always be a few steps behind well organized hackers.<p>Privacy - People have been talking about the loss of privacy going back to the 1950&#x27;s and 60&#x27;s with the Watergate break in. Nothing really big here, only that computers would make it easier to keep tabs on the general public, not harder. Hell, people were already talking about Orwell&#x27;s &quot;1984&quot; which supposedly predicted a lot of what was going in 1985 - in 1949!!