(FORTUNE Magazine) – KEY: [Smart call] [Smarter call] [Dead on] [Wow]

June 1945 The Bogey of Economic Maturity "Washington spenders claim that capitalism is moribund because saving tends to outrun investment opportunities. Theirs is a flimsy case."

[Smarter call]

June 1946 "The Great American Boom is on, and there is no measuring it; the old yardsticks won't do."

[Dead on]

May 1949 Mechanical Brains "An entirely new class of high-speed automatic computing machines, with rudimentary organs of memory, judgment, and mathematical logic, points to the second industrial revolution."

[Wow]

August 1965 Traveler to the Pacific Wars "What I was sure of [in Vietnam], already, was that a whole new experience, a test, a struggle, possibly even some fantastic ordeal, is unmistakably in the making for the U.S. in the Pacific, and a new and formidable chapter has opened in U.S. history."

[Dead on]

February 1967 "The process of putting conglomerates together tends to expand stock prices long before it expands the economic values on which stock prices ultimately depend."

[Smarter call]

June 1971 Stand By for the Cartridge TV Explosion Predicted the rise of the VCR.

[Smart call]

June 1974 California's Great Breeding Ground for Industry "It all started when a remarkable Stanford professor set out to build a 'community of technical scholars.' Today Santa Clara County [a.k.a. Silicon Valley] is a center of innovative technology like no place else in the world."

[Dead on]

November 1975 Here Comes the Second Computer Revolution "The brainpower of a digital computer is now available on a little chip of silicon. The reverberations will affect both businesses and consumers."

[Dead on]

Jan. 30, 1978 The Concorde's Disastrous Economics

[Dead on]

Jan. 15, 1979 Rupert Murdoch Says He's Here to Stay

[Smart call]

Dec. 1, 1980 "There is at least the possibility that the workers' revolution there [in Poland] will loom, in retrospect, as a truly epochal event--an irreparable crack in the foundations of the communist order."

[Wow]

July 18, 1988 Technology in the Year 2000 Predicts pocket computers, E-books, flat-screen TVs, picture phones, and deciphering the genome.

[Smart call]

July 11, 1994 FORTUNE Checks Out 25 Cool Companies Profile of Netscape when it was Mosaic.

[Smarter call]

Feb. 5, 1996 AT&T Has No Clothes "The emperor of telecommunications is a hit with investors, but get a load of what they keep ignoring: a dozen years of bad decisions and giant write-offs."

[Smarter call]

Aug. 4, 1997 Digital Photography Is the Next Big Thing

[Smart call]

June 7, 1999 Net Stock Rules "At some point the market will stop marveling at the web's potential and start demanding real profits."

[Smarter call]

Feb. 7, 2000 AOL+TWX=??? "To make the merger [AOL and Time Warner] work for investors ... will be like pushing a boulder up an Alp."

[Wow]

March 5, 2001 Is Enron Overpriced? "Start with a pretty straightforward question: How exactly does Enron make its money?"

[Wow]