No sooner had big government been “discredited” than the computer revolution tipped the balance of power back in its favor, much as the introduction of artillery in the fifteenth century, by permitting the reduction of upstart noblemen’s castles, had restored certain lost prerogatives of kings. With the help of technology, Reaganite capitalism undid the democratic achievements of Reaganite politics. The problem was not the expansion of government until it crowded out the private sector—it was the expansion of the private sector until it became a kind of government.
