Back in 1999, Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize winner in Economics said this:
"I think the internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of the government. The one thing that's missing but will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash."
(Source: https://twitter.com/rohit_rai9/status/1094838783932010496)
9 years later, Bitcoin was born...
How's that for some foresight?
Pretty impressive huh!