I personally see WASM as a natural descendant of ASM.js, so in that sense I'd say its not really wrong, just missing a step. I don't know that it's necessarily

I personally see WASM as a natural descendant of ASM.js, so in that sense I'd say its not really wrong, just missing a step. I don't know that it's necessarily uncanny though either; ASM.js was already a thing back when that presentation was given, so the existence of WASM isn't really surprising. The real central "prediction" of that talk wasn't WASM, it was METAL, which hasn't quite taken off yet. (The idea is out there[0], but so far mostly just as a self-fulfilling prophecy). [0]: https://github.com/lastmjs/wasm-metal https://github.com/lastmjs/wasm-metal