really really really inaccurate internet prophecies; webkooks; implicit uspol
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/writing/Guardian/ceramics.htm
Check out this article from 1997 about how the Web will Surely Police Itself Against Fringe Ideas Because We Will All Become More Rational Thanks To More Information.
You can see some of my biggest heroes of the early net being extremely, catastrophically naive.