How about Paul Valery in around 1900: "Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minim

How about Paul Valery in around 1900: "Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign." Sure, it doesn't use the language and notion of the computer, but how important is computing per se to 95% of Internet users?