I've been reading a lot of Asimov lately.
It's really fun whenever one of his predictions about the future are wrong.
For example, in his short story "Franchise" (written in 1955), he predicts that by the year 2008, that US elections will be decided by a supercomputer named Multivac, which itself is a bit funny. But the part that is really funny is the way Multivac provides its output to the humans:
Somehow he had thought Multivac would speak in a sepulchral, superhuman voice, resonant and echoing, but that, after all, was just an idea he had from seeing too many television shows, he now decided. The truth was distressingly undramatic. The questions were slips of a kind of metallic foil patterned with numerous punctures. A second machine converted the pattern into words and Paulson read the words to Norman, then gave him the question and let him read it for himself. Norman's answers were taken down by a recording machine, played back to Norman for confirmation, with emendations and added remarks also taken down. All that was fed into a pattern-making instrument and that, in turn, was radiated to Multivac.
The text is a bit confusing out of context. Mutlivac is asking questions to a human (Norman). A machine spits out the questions onto some foil tape, which another human (Paulson) then feeds into another machine, which converts the tape to text (presumably on a sheet paper).
The whole UX seems laughingly complicated given the fact that they have a supercomputer which is capable of running their whole society.