It's not you. I happen to be reading "Zero History" at the moment and it felt almost surreal to read this article. Gave me a weird feeling I was falling inside the story, if that makes any sense.
Or William Gibson's recent "Spook Country" trilogy.
Or Daniel Suarez's "Daemon"
I think this year, for many different reasons, is the first time that I've really felt like I was living in The Future.
Keep in mind that the journalist here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Penenberg , famous for uncovering the Stephen Glass journalistic fraud, has a certain flair for the dramatic.
Life imitates art, or so they say. I consider it a feature of Bitcoin, really.