The article is obvious total sarcasm. There are inventions, tiny and huge, happening every day. All of them follow the law of seven stages (appended below for reference). Even the most significant developments are over-advertised and over-sold. An article like this could have been committed when Internet was in phase 3. This has happened with Internet and will happen with Bitcoin.
PS. I believe that Internet is now in Phase 7. The most popular people on Web 2.0 are individuals who do not know HTML and cannot say what port HTTP works on. They cannot set up a LAMP server, but write blogs, populate YouTube channels, and have gazillions of followers on Facebook.
Seven Stages of a Project
Phase 1: Uncritical acceptance.
Phase 2: Wild enthusiasm.
Phase 3: Dejected disillusionment.
Phase 4: Total confusion.
Phase 5: Search for the guilty.
Phase 6: Punishment of the innocent.
Phase 7: Promotion of nonparticipants.