The author doesn't seem to realize that the Internet's name changed in about 1988. I suspect the WP has earlier references to it under its previous name, Arpanet.

Kinda surprised there was no mention of anybots. I think the general populace is going to be shocked at how quick some major changes happen in the near future.

It fits with the theme of the article that no one outside of this circle has heard of them. It takes people a while to notice huge progress.

I also think robotic cars are really going to sneak up on us.

Just reading the title, I thought "oh cool, an article on anybots". But, yup that was the point. No one knows.

hehe... yeah, a year ago I polled a couple of co-workers on when we would have self-driving cars. One said 50 years, one said never. :)

This is one of the reasons I have my ear to the rail on Hacker News. People wander in from a lot of interesting circles.