The forerunners to these trends were observable even back then, and also, history repeats itself. Check out HG Wells Time Machine from 1895 (not 1985, actually 1895), and Animal Farm by George Orwell in 1945, or even Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, written around 380 BCE.
The closer we get to the future, the higher the resolution of the prediction - using our exact words & phrases like “social media” - but it is eerie how accurate those hundreds to thousands of years old works are as well.
Are those silicone though?
Nvm, I’ll see myself out now…