I suppose the Lisp folks see the same thing, just a bit slower. The evolution of development languages is clearly in the direction of what Smalltalk is, with the great mass of developers being dragged kicking and screaming, begging not to have C syntax taken away from them. Consider the progress:

• With Smalltalk gaining popularity in the late 80's, we had the abortion that is C++ introduced, which at least brought (some) OO concepts out to the masses
• Java came along, which mainstreamed VMs and garbage collection. That was progress, but decent reflection was left out, and the C style was kept
• Ruby and Python are starting to gain ground (especially the former now, with Ruby on Rails). The syntax is still Cish (at least to my eyes), but we've got closures and decent reflection. Not the power or environment that Smalltalk has, but closer

From the perspective of a Smalltalker, it looks like a grudging acceptance that we were right all along, but the foot dragging and wailing can still be heard. Kind of like a toddler being put to bed...