Paul Birch and Mass Stream applications for the real world

[iancampbell]

Yep. There's an even earlier case. Some Texas sheriff in the 19th century, about the telephone he had just been shown: "Someday, every town will have one."

Computers again: "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, 1949