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It's how a lot of technological changes roll out. The spectacle is long over by the time the war is done.

• CapitalistCartr 16y ago
  I'm trying to make sense of your statement. It seems to be a tautology. Did you mean the spectacle is long over before people are aware of what happened?
  • Unseelie 16y ago
    That's certainly the case in anything worth more than a soundbite of reflection. To attack the position of tautology directly, though, 'the war' isn't at all about public awareness, or awareness at all. Its about usage. So, people trying to break facebook get hyped. That's where we're sitting, or just behind where we're sitting. Then the environment changes, the war is won. The war is about, in this case, facebook being forced to play ball with open protocols...not about people becoming aware of that.
    • agentultra 16y ago
      That's it in a nutshell. The media and observers will make acute predictions about how everything will play out. And long after everyone has moved on the "war" continues and sometimes is eventually won. Though it is rare that the the prediction and the end result are the same. I think Facebook will still be around long after the industry has shifted. Just as Live Journal is still around.