There are just as many stories about futures that never came true......I advise Herman Kahn's "The Emerging Japanese Superstate", the same man's predictions of the colonisation of Mars by 2000 and personal helicopters instead of cars, Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" and most futurologists' predictions generally. Also hordes of hard-right rants about the fall of the West. I recall finding in my university's library a book called "The Death of British Democracy", published 1977. About the only thing nobody mentioned was computers. Predictions and conservatism both tend to be wrong.