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Re:Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society by tuatoru on Sunday September 06, 2020 @11:55PM (#24396508)
If you like that kind of thing (I do), then you may be interested in A Brief History of the Future, by Jacques Attali, first published in 2006.

Attali was an adviser to the French President and writes in the French obscurantist style, and most of the book is a history of the past, not the future. But...

Attali does talk about the issues of:

everything-as-a-service;

corporate surveillance and hyper-invasive employee behaviour control (think: FB, Goog, MS, your employer with keyloggers etc);

decreasing relevance / capability of leading nation states, especially the US (demonstrated by this little virus thingy);

interregional and inter-ideological conflict (China cyberhacking turned up to 11, climate refugees);

a turning against (crony) capitalism, which has failed for nearly everybody (by externalising costs, and shifting risks onto households). Extinction Rebellion is an early, embryonic example of this, I think.

And he was writing all that back in the early 2000s.

Re:Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society by dredmorbius on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:51AM (#24397155)
Thanks, new to me though John Naughton's similarly titled book is in my pile.

I'm somewhat more interested in older histories as they have a track record which can be tracked and suggest possible guiding principles (or traps).