Interesting - from 1988

https://bitcoin.eu/1988-economist-magazine-prediction-come-true/

The cover advertises the magazine’s leading story in which the author suggests a single unified currency could ease international financial woes.

The article’s author, anonymous behind an editorial team alias, envisages a modern world connected like never before. Instead of the Yen or Peso or Rupee, the Phoenix Coin would dominate. There would be no need for expensive international currency transfers or cumbersome money wires.

Everyone would be using the same coin; the Phoenix Coin.

Rediscovered by cryptocurrency enthusiasts in the 2000s, many believe the image is a prediction come true. So did The Economist foresee the creation of Bitcoin three decades ago?

Alongside the unknown identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the Phoneix Coin cover is one of the crypto community’s most infamous founding legends. Read on as Bitcoin Australia investigates the mystery.