Remaining outside the constraints of convention is no guarantee of brilliance in prognostication, however.
Millions of fundamentalists are still convinced computers will never last, come Judgment Day. (Not just "Christians", either)
My suspicion is it's not humanity that's headed towards apotheoses, based on how poorly it deals with its own basic technology, let alone more advanced trends of the past century...
RE: Good luck to those who relied their "knowledge" solely on the mainstream media