Computing became decentralized, and the new flexibility produced a sense that control was moving away from big agglomerations of power – whether governments or companies. It is not surprising that the triumph of the PC seemed to be accompanied by a revival of the nineteenth-century vision of classical liberalism and individualism.
个人电脑起初看起来会恢复有利于个人的平衡。计算变得集权，而新的灵活性产生了一种感觉，那就是控制正在从政府或者公司等权力集中之处转移出来。个人电脑的胜利看起来伴随着十九世纪古典自由主义和个人主义的复苏，这也就不足为奇了。