The question is thus whether it will now be so crushingly obvious that he's broken that they can't deny it anymore? I would not assume that from the outset.

Well, I think it's possible that an alternative emerges - it is emerging, I believe - that is so gobsmackingly obvious we won't believe that we ever did it any other way.

As the designer Naoto Fukasawa puts it:

"My motivation is to find the simple answer that everybody knows, but which doesn't yet exist..."

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson