Carl Sagan sure seemed almost prophetic. The Bible did point it out first however.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s
or grandchildren’s time—when the Unites States is a service and
information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries
have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers
are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public
interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the
ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in
authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our
horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish
between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without
noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
