[jeremyjh]

> But no one saw the economic and cultural boom ahead.

Quite a lot of science fiction authors did indeed see this coming.

[diego_moita]

You know, it is all about the false negatives and false positives.

A lot of science fiction authors foresee a lot. And a lot of what they foresee ends up not happening.

They're much like the soothsayer that predicts 100 things but only remembers the one that happened and forgets all the others.