Well, earlier this month, I experienced yet another day of cognitive dissonance in which

• I struggled to justify the value of new-media arts research to an audience of Silicon Valley businesspeople;
  while simultaneously,
• Some new-media artist friends of mine discovered that their work had been ‘appropriated’ by a large corporation.

There’s a clearly a cultural blindspot, here, folks. In the hope that these artists and others like them may receive some recognition for their pioneering prognostication and belated cultural influence, I here offer A few examples of New Media Artworks which Have Predicted the Future, Perhaps Too Successfully: