this sounds familiar...
Donald Fagen's penned 'I.G.Y' (International Geophysical Year), describing a utopian view of the world from 1957. The lyrics:
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by seventy-six we'll be A.O.K.
He was a few years off in the prediction (I'm still waiting for maglev cars myself), but he got the basics right.