The year before, I think just after we'd seen Mosaic / glimpsed the future, a colleague had observed that 'one day soon you won't have to hang up to order pizza

The year before, I think just after we'd seen Mosaic / glimpsed the future, a colleague had observed that 'one day soon you won't have to hang up to order pizza'. (Most of us were on dial-up back then.) Not flying-car level of techno-prophecy, but prescient in a way I didn't immediately pick up -- ADSL / cable improved our speed, but the significantly larger impact was from having always-on Internet access.