He seems to talk around the "Why," what role would these computers actually play beyond making the people capable of building and using them "very powerful" in some vague and unknown way? I admittedly found it difficult to read through this, it reads like an excessively verbose version of the proverbial "just trust me, bro" so I may have missed the actual explanation. He seems to acknowledge that it most likely would serve no purpose outside of a very specific sort of collapse which I assume would be one which only affected the computer industry but left everything largely untouched, which seems unlikely.

A politician, a computer scientist and Joe walk into a post-apocalyptic bar. The politician buys everyone a round. The computer scientist tries to raise funding for a POS terminal designed around the needs of the post-apocalyptic hospitality industry. Joe gets a job washing dishes at the post-apocalyptic bar.