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Will Life Be Worth Living in the Year 2000? asks this article from 1961, making predictions about the nightmarish Jetsons-style utopia that awaited all of us unborns in the new millenium.  
The broad strokes of how computers provide instantaneous convenience are all there, so 5 points for that.  But mostly this guy is on too [...]

Overt Operations

Yes, that is a paper mache penis helicopter disrupting a Russian meeting, apparently being held by Gary Kasparov. Wait, what?
Kasparov, former Chess grandmaster, is a pro-democracy reformist and a very outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, who just relinquished the Presidency to his successor/crony Dmitri Medvedev, who immediately appointed Putin to the office of Prime Minister, [...]