As Churchill predicted:
“[T]he whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
It is a rare man that can rise above the clutter of his time and take a broader view.
Churchill may not have predicted computers, but he saw the broad outline of what was to come.