I love these type of prediction articles from the past. I loved the specificity, depth, and unbridled optimism of the article.

Though most of it was wrong in terms of timing, this was bang on: "Around 2010, Intel builds a chip with a billion transistors". Intel released core i7 chip with 1.16 billion transistors in 2010. I guess Moore's law was still in full effect.

Even though timing was wrong, I do feel the authors will be eventually proven right on many. Clearly they were intentionally being overly optimistic, by the way they end the article.