In 1980 (before the IBM PC and the first Macintosh were released), two authors Gary B. Shelly and Thomas J. Cashman published an educational book titled Introduction to computers and data processing. While the book is mostly filled with extremely outdated documentation of various languages, instructions, and trivia, the book raises some concerns that hold up extremely well in today's world 4 decades later.
On a few occasions it raises concerns about how computers could be utilized to store huge amounts of information about citizens and the implications that could have if the data were to be misused, especially in regards to privacy. When you connect it to big companies like Google and Facebook (who already have a shady as fuck record when it comes to privacy) doing sketchy shit with your data for profit, you'll shit bricks. To quote Shelly and Cashman at page 446:
QuoteThe computer will have a significant influence on the way in which society functions in the future. One of the more pressing issues ... is that modern computer systems have made it technically and economically feasable to store large volumes of data about citizens ... in such a way that this data can be readily accessed and analyzed. Some feel the establishment of these data banks offers a great potential for the loss of privacy and that misuse of this data threatens many of the basic freedoms found in society.
Holy fuck. This is fucking scary levels of accuracy. It's literally as if they knew that this exact thing would happen and tried to warn everyone decades earlier before it was too late, only to fall on deaf ears.