No good deed goes unpunished: by making the PC, IBM practically destroyed itself as a company. Its innovation gave rise to a huge number of new and dynamic companies, forcing IBM to reinvent itself completely in order to compete with them – just one example of the socially transformative effects of the PC.
最终还是恩将仇报。IBM制造了个人电脑，结果几乎自取灭亡。它的创新导致了一大批新兴和充满活力的公司，迫使IBM为了与它们竞争而洗心格面。这仅仅是个人电脑的社会转变效力的一个例子而已。