I wouldn't take everything in the Wired piece as gospel. For example if you read point 3, "Transclusion Misstated" at http://web.archive.org/web/20001101230424/http://www2.educ.k... , it's clear that 1) Ted Nelson understood content-addressable networking long before eg. Bittorrent came about , while 2) Gary Wolf didn't get content-addressable networking even after researching Xanadu, meeting with Nelson himself, and writing a feature article about Xanadu for Wired. So, yes. See also http://web.archive.org/web/20001003011753/http://xanadu.com.... .

"Nelson invented a new way of crossing the street: when arriving at a busy thoroughfare, he would dramatically turn his back on traffic and step with theatrical nonchalance off the sidewalk. Drivers, frightened, would slam on their brakes."

Well, there's that.

”Eyes On The Road” might've been a reasonable assumption in the day before smartphones, but nowadays I'd advise against literally betting your life on it.