It is an interesting article, mostly due to the fact that it never mentions Yakir Aharonov, who thought up the whole idea of weak measurements as a means of getting at information thought to be unmeasurable.
By the way, I’d be very skeptical of any understanding you came to as the result of reading an SF novel. Pretty much everything I’ve ever seen that builds on quantum ideas is seriously in error. Facts, it seems, get in the way of a good story.