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Isn't that quote talking about something different? The F&FS article is saying that "Gibson was never trying to be prescient" and that this is irrelevant for writing a good story: "he has always been more concerned with story and character". I don't think that's wrong, but it still doesn't answer the question what books did make accurate predictions.

When we first learned Java in university we were taught that classes were like "molds for objects". For the prior excercises we had to make classes that had a main method and were never used to create objects, which I found confusing. But I had the same issue with abstract classes, which seemed to be molds for object creation, without the ability to be used for creating objects.

I agree that it probably doesn't matter once you get over that.