Claims

The book 'Men, Machines, and Modernity' by Elting Morison (written before the internet, ~50 years ago, recently reissued) presents a three-step model of technology adoption that is fundamental to understanding contemporary technology resistance.

John von Neumann invented computer software (punch card coded instructions) not the hardware (electronic computer existed at University of Pennsylvania as ENIAC), and software gave computers agility and flexibility allowing a single machine to predict weather, simulate populations, and test hydrogen bomb feasibility.

Von Neumann failed to foresee computers becoming small, cheap, and ubiquitous (for household income tax calculations, children's homework, computer games), and particularly failed to foresee computer games as dominant feature of 21st century life creating indelible human-computer addiction from childhood.