I read this last year and it's crazy how much they got right. For me, it also seriously enforced the importance of learning relevant history. The predictions in the book are based on the path humans have been tracing through time and then imagining where we'll be - given that historical path - farther into the future.

I'm sad to say up until the last few years I loathed studying history. Given trad schooling, I understood history as the study of military battles and international relations. It caused me to completely miss the advantage of studying the history of technology.