I get that there are a lot of AMI meters out there that were installed with the old 2G protocol and should be upgraded, which probably means a meter by meter physical upgrade (though perhaps additional encryption software running over 2G could be installed in firmware, which could also take care of hard coded passwords).

But more modern meters are using 3G or 4G, and overall security has been upgraded. The article only covers the older installs without saying that more modern meters and software have addressed the security concerns outlined in the article.

There was no comment on demographics in these predictions. Much of the world is actually de-populating because of a low birthrate. That's quite an omission.