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...striding toward the sanctuary of his Grandville, Mich., church, the barely improved husk of a former shopping mall, when he runs into one of his favorite congregants. They immediately address a topic close to both their hearts. "Man!" says Bell. "Can I hear it? Can I hear the demo?" The congregant, an affable young part-time musician named Joel, who dresses like a long-lost Ramone, mumbles bashfully, "I can burn you one." "Great!" exclaims Bell, whose geeky-hip glasses, black pants, black shirt and polyester white belt make their own statement. "Hey, man," he adds, "I saw the Arctic...
...partnered with two other NYU film grads. None of us were technologists. The epiphanous moment came when we were sitting around a computer and someone was demo-ing the Mosaic browser and said, "Look, we're now on a computer in Sweden." When you go through art school, all your friends become struggling artists, and the thing that restricts your ability to pursue your art or craft is distribution. The writer needs the publisher; the musician needs the label. All of a sudden there was this medium, and we could completely disintermediate the communication process. For us, that was like...
...more-faster-now world." His contrarian message: "Speed leads to a more pleasant, less stressful experience." The author, a business consultant with a master's degree in organizational management, knows a thing or two about velocity. He competed in speed skiing, a demo event at the 1992 Olympics. (His personal best: 135 m.p.h.) TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Poscente, who was on a cell phone while he was driving in Dallas...
...author knows a thing or two about velocity, having competed in speed skiing, a demo event at the 1992 Olympics. (His personal best: 135 m.p.h., or 217 km/h.) A business consultant with a master's degree in organizational management, Poscente admires swiftness in companies as well as individuals. Google, he says, "knows how to harness the power of speed," whereas Kodak "actively resisted speed even though its environment demanded it." He identifies four pop-psychology types: Zeppelins, who stubbornly resist speeding up; Balloons, whose occupations remove them from the need for speed; Bottle Rockets, who race around recklessly; and Jets...
...next few roles will determine if he stays a teen idol or becomes a star that adults without kids will know. Leesa Coble, the editor of Tiger Beat and Bop, thinks he's already phased out of her demo. "When people are on the cover of Rolling Stone and in People, that's sort of a sign for us that the peak has happened for our readers," she says. "You don't want to like what your parents like...