America expands once again _ digitally, this time
The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.
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In America, A Digital 'Manifest Destiny' Is Playing Out
NEW YORK -- The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.
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A new American expansion, this time in the digital realm
Today, almost two centuries after the term "manifest destiny" was coined, American expansionism is playing out vigorously at society's latest cutting edge: the social space of the Internet.
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American expansion, this time online
"Manifest destiny," once a term of geography, moves to the Internet.
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Facebook's IPO only scratches the surface of American digital expansion
NEW YORK — The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend. Sound familiar? In the 19th century, Americans expanded into a physical frontier — a geographic edge of society brimming ...
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