I'm afraid, have a very good record when it comes to prediction. Things sometimes move more slowly than we think they will. Now we're almost there, and it's plain that many of the things that were predicted to happen in the film and the book haven't happened yet, and won't for a very long time. So it is with the new technologies. Everyone is sure they will change our lives immeasurably, but no one is quite sure how.
Cinemas remade themselves, and now they are booming.
And we are all familiar with the stories of how inventions of the recent past were received with bewilderment and scepticism. That was a hundred years ago, more or less, but not much has changed. We still find it hard to grasp the significance of these technological leaps and to guess the impact they are going to have on us. Nobody was particularly interested. Mosaic was at last taken up by somebody who thought differently, and it was turned into Netscape and a billion-dollar enterprise.