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Though his style is unlike Turner’s, Crook’s easygoing demeanor has made him an instant player favorite...
...getting it to those who don't with unmatched speed and in unprecedented quantities. But it all raises some heavy sociological questions. In the old days, trends would percolate through the population slowly via the "and-they-told-two-friends" network. Now trends spread virally, via e-mail and instant messaging, with professional trend spotters snapping at their heels, hurrying them onward ever faster. In an age of universal information access, isn't everybody, by definition, in the know? What would it mean if the line between the cool kids and the uncool kids collapsed under the awesome pressure...
...original cool hunter, the subject of the famous 1997 New Yorker profile. Gordon and Lee both used to work for Lambesis, but by 1999 they got impatient with the way things were done. They were going out and giving kids pen-and-paper surveys when the kids were using instant messaging and two-way pagers. "We could have kept doing this the same way," says Gordon, who dresses in black and wears her plain brown hair pushed back over her ears, Galadriel-style, "but we knew better...
When I was in middle school 20 years ago, we spent a lot of time on the phone. But it nowhere near compares to the intensity and time kids spend communicating on the Internet. As most parents know, instant messaging is an obsession for most kids in middle school...
...motorcycle boots. Today no fashion look can be called complete without a cell phone. Yet nobody has given much thought to upgrading the design of these ubiquitous tech toys. TIME dialed up two renowned designers and asked for help. Art director Fabien Baron sketched what he calls a nomadic instant-communication panel, left, which provides voice communication, interactive chatting, Internet access and movies, TV and games while in transit. "It's a connector, a medium and a refuge," says Baron. "The ultimate stimulus for our nomadic generation." Taking the notion of cell phone as appendage, architect David Rockwell called...