In the New Year's spirit of taking stock of where we were and where we are going, here's Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think," which predicts, among other things, the PC and hypertext. 

I find its optimism is a bit giddy, even though I am generally a technophile. I wonder how many of today's "visionaries" will be as correct in 50 years. I certainly can think of none of their visions which I actually think I want to see come about in 50 years. I can think of none who have such a humanistic outlook; everyone these days is hung up on different ways to fundamentally alter what humanity is, that I can think of no one who even tries to prescribe what a good life might be.

Maybe I'm fishing for a counterexample.