This is a good example of a typical off-the-wall sci-fi speculation that sits around trying to premonitory for decades on end. Most ideas like this, and man do I have a lot of them, aren’t “premonitions” of anything. They’re just eccentric notions that wink out like flung sparks.
Link:https://medium.com/@bruces/computer-as-furoshiki-1993-8c9a20f1b3bf