Nothing dates as quickly as our ideas of the future. Here is an interesting article about the predictions people have made in the past about new technologies. So just remember to keep your hat on about this internet thing.
Bruce Bliven wrote about the radio in 1922:
There will be only one orchestra left on earth, giving nightly worldwide concerts; when all universities will be combined into one super-institution, conducting courses by radio for students in Zanzibar, Kamchatka and Oskaloose…
Though some made good points, and some predictions were quite right.
It is believed that brief pithy statements as to the positions of the parties and candidates, which reach the emotions through the minds of millions of radio listeners, will play an important part in the race to the White House.
All-in-all, an interesting read. Via Qwghlm.