Facebook's IPO only scratches the surface of American digital expansion

Saturday, May 19, 2012 | 6:25 p.m. CDT; updated 3:22 p.m. CDT, Sunday, May 20, 2012

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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