It is at least nice to see someone holding to account the "futurists" and those who speak from armchairs and barstools and blogs (and newspapers) with unlimited

It is at least nice to see someone holding to account the "futurists" and those who speak from armchairs and barstools and blogs (and newspapers) with unlimited certitude in their predictions of the future, if that's the purpose of the post. This was a somewhat pessimistic prediction, but the unbridled optimistic ones should be held with equal skepticism. What will and will not take hold in society is perhaps as much a matter of chance as of vision or wisdom or foresight.