>> ...These experts believed that an isolated computer at home would be too under-powered to be worthwhile. > Considering how the majority of the general popul

>> ...These experts believed that an isolated computer at home would be too under-powered to be worthwhile. > Considering how the majority of the general population's use of "computers" is really interacting with remote and cloud services (Facebook, Netflix, etc) this is a valid argument today. While today's equivalent of terminals (phones, tablets, and even PCs) have a significant amount of local computing ability, for the most part they really are just used as fancy terminals. Gaming is maybe the one mainstream application where local compute is important. The argument you quote was not that people would be using terminals, per se, it was that they'd have to because local computing would not be powerful enough. And in that sense their argument was not correct.