The Predictive Programming in this book is not a co-incidence. Time to dig on the author and publisher. - https://themillions.com/2013/03/the-weird-1969-new-wave-sci-fi-novel-that-correctly-predicted-the-current-day.html -
John Brunner
Links to spy novels dead?
Allegedly died '95 age 60
All I could find out about his death was that he was sick for a long time and in a state of decline leading to his death. He stopped writing as prodigiously as he had, after '72.
The too weirdly prognosticating novel "Zanzibar" was published in '68.
None of his other works seemed to live up to that one and he was mostly , apparently , a writer of pulp fiction.
So I wonder if he really wrote that book, Or if he were just used as a front. He's said to have been a Leftist and the novel which portrays the world we've grown to, is dystopian.
I can't believe that the predictions in that book were accidental.
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brunner_john