One big thing totally didn't: the estrangement of respectable society from high technology shrank instead of growing. Can you imagine going to a criminal gang

One big thing totally didn't: the estrangement of respectable society from high technology shrank instead of growing. Can you imagine going to a criminal gang for cutting edge medical treatment? Or a top-notch hacker living in a U-Store-it? It looked plausible in the days of Woz building blue boxes while IBM and DEC demanded engineers wear suits. The gap looked unbridgeable. But instead of open warfare, the most relevant of the suits toppled and the surviving elite welcomed Gates and Joy into their ranks. With some reluctance, perhaps, but it was enough. The system was a bit more flexible and robust than CP authors thought.