I think one factor he didn't comprehend was lock-in via de-facto standards controlled by single corporations. Take AWS or Microsoft Windows as examples. Busines

I think one factor he didn't comprehend was lock-in via de-facto standards controlled by single corporations. Take AWS or Microsoft Windows as examples. Businesses that build a lot of infrastructure around those products are stuck with no choice but to continue to use them or ditch many years and sometimes tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in sunk cost. Computing seems to facilitate this particular kind of monopoly more easily than physical systems.