Jeremy Bentham: Soothsayer?
Not quite but he did have a vision of a great utilitarian invention called the Panopticon. A kind of prison designed in a way as to make every inmate visible to authorities at all times. Hadn't he heard of the N.S.A.? They are only watching you for your own good. Besides you don't FEEL like a slave/prisoner, do you? Here's the book where he laid out his ugly vision.