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Re:Why TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is still revolutionizing... by evgen on Thursday October 22, 2009 @06:12PM (#897812)
That's a pretty smug attitude to sport without data to back up your claims.

What can be said, with strong data, is that _right now_ the people who produce and create TV shows around the world have more influence and capability to revolutionize global culture than all of silicon valley put together (including our precious Google...) The best chance Facebook and Twitter have to play a role in this game is as a tool to inform and influence key members of this infotainment community.

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Re:Why TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is still revolutionizing... by chrischen on Friday October 23, 2009 @04:40AM (#898462)
You're comparing TV, the technology, to companies. I think the internet is much more revolutionary than TV. I mean a country like China goes as far as censoring the internet (and it takes much more effort to do this than to control the TV stations) because it knows it is not only revolutionary, but capable of inciting revolutions.

Perhaps TV, when it was first invented, was comparably revolutionary, but in terms of today, the internet is the big, new thing.

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