Keep in mind when this was. To most people computers were things in movies that caught fire when errors occurred. They commandeered spaceships and sacrificed

Keep in mind when this was. To most people computers were things in movies that caught fire when errors occurred. They commandeered spaceships and sacrificed humans for their own pitiless amusement. Some people had their own computers, but most people never had never used one before and never imagined that they would use one. So it probably wasn't all that far out of context because the context wasn't well defined for them.