The public was sold early on the idea that if you bought a personal computer you could write your own programs and games for the thing and up until now that's more-or-less been a kind of convenient half-truth. What's, "the market" when people really can command their computer interface to do, "what they'd like it to do?"

I see it as a correction rather than deflation. We proved the shitty salesman of the 70s and 80s right. The computer really can be a bicycle for the mind; whether or not that bicycle actually fucking goes anywhere is still left to human wills.