For a long time, a recurrent feature of WIRED magazine was the "Hype List," a Top 5 list exploring the advancements in tech everyone was talking about.  Below is the #2 entry for the June 1995 issue.

2. 3-D TV

"The color-TV market has always been the backbone of Japan's electronics industry. But growth has slowed in recent years, and the zaibatsu are searching for the next big thing.  HDTV was the heir apparent, but the Japanese grew tired of pouring money and resources into that sinkhole. So, now they have come up with an even more outlandish plan: 3-D television. Sanyo, for example, is aggressively hyping its 3-D LCD technology, which doesn't require glasses. It's a cute technology, and it may even find a home in high-end videogames, but it's a long way, both technically and culturally, from becoming the next color TV."

-Steve G. Steinberg

This blurb is chockfull of fascinating prognostication, both on the dot and woefully ill-founded: the "sinkhole" of HDTV, the future of glasses-free 3D gaming, the use of the word zaibatsu (okay, that wasn't a prediction, but I wanted an excuse to pronounce that again in my mind). 

For some context: This is the same issue in which they reviewed "Magic Carpet" for the PC CD-ROM, Charles Platt wrote on whether Acclaim would survive the loss of its Mortal Kombat license (answer: no) and ads tempted you to "Explore the internet FREE!" with a ten-hour free trial from Delphi.

The unfortunate cover article? A feature, written by William Gibson, on the upcoming Keanu Reeves film Johnny Mnemonic.

What does all of this mean? I'm not sure. But if you haven't been, seek out old issues of WIRED and scour them for such tidbits, as they are troves of treasure, I tell you what.