A More Nuanced View

In Computers, Inc. Anchordoguy takes a somewhat more balanced view.
- Specifically, she mentions a failure to achieve "global standard" results in software, a failure apparent even today.
In part this balance is due to the 10-year lag in performing the research; a lot more was known in 1988 than in 1978.
Also, Johnson participated in the formation of a new analytical framework. Anchordoguy took advantage of the clarity provided by Johnson's advances.
N.B. The bubble had not yet burst in the late 1980s, and both editorialists and academic scholars were divided concerning whether the bubble was a good thing or a bad thing for the developmental state, although inside MITI and MOF senior bureaucrats were getting worried.