[COFF] Views of the future from 1970?

[finnoleary at inventati.org (Finn O'Leary)]

Hey all, I was browsing my small corner of the fediverse, when I came 
across a post that said:

> @pastelpunkbandit at hellsite.site
> i wonder if people from the 70s would make fun of us for still using vi

It got me wondering -- what /was/ the view of the future of computing, 
by people working deeply with the systems of the time? I know that 
people worked on what they felt was the future -- and returned bearing 
the gifts of Smalltalk. Prolog, etc ad nausem. Surely there was the 
expectation that things would be improved, but what form did those 
expectations take?

Incidentally, if there /were/ jokes about people using $program in the 
future -- I think that would be of interest too :)

Thanks!

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