David Foster Wallace correctly predicts Netflix binging in 1996.

Everyone’s experience of this sort of thing is different. But for myself, I have found that since I emerged from the internet-based hibernation of my 20s and replaced a lot of my TV and video game consumption with live theatre and dance and city exploration and concerts and burlesque and parties, I am happier and more satisfied with existence than I have ever been in my life.

Ray Bradbury predicted this much earlier in Fahrenheit 451. In the book Montag’s wife spends all her time with “the family,” virtual people projected onto floor-to-ceiling screens in the living room