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...make millions, fast. This week the pair takes us inside the do-it-yourself dotcom scene, where everyone from Stephen King to scruffy indies is using the Internet to distribute his own music, TV, film and books. Ratnesar is now based in London, and so the team's techno-savvy came in handy. They wrote the story over speakerphone, with their computers hooked up across the Atlantic with a Timbuktu tieline...
Some people melt over wafer-thin notebook PCs. Others get finger twitches thinking about their next death match in Quake III. But what really brings out the techno-geek in me is a killer search engine that finds just what I'm looking for, and fast. That's why Google has made it to the top of my bookmark file. The engine was developed by two Stanford Ph.D. students and named after the mathematical term googol, which stands for 10[100th power]. The great thing about Google is that it works...
...Literally everything. From disco, rock, metal, reggae, rap, blues, jazz, progressive rock, techno, progressive jazz, alternative, new age, folk and even a little bit of country and western...
Party-goers cut up the dance floor in ratty red t-shirts or recently bought Jasmine Sola tops. The D.J. played hip-hop and techno. Typical final club types sat next to people who couldn't get tickets to the Owl Luau. And the deciding factor on who was admitted to the party was not gender (male non-members are not allowed into many final club parties) or a guest list or the amount of makeup we were wearing, but whether we had a ticket. Ladies and gentlemen, the era of social equality has arrived at Harvard's social scene...
...authors themselves are on the funky side. They both shave their heads, wear leather trousers, listen to techno-rock and call their lectures "gigs." Though flippantly argued, their book makes the serious point that we've entered an age in which time and talent are the most precious commodities. It shows how businesses can exploit the myriad opportunities in a world in which hierarchical corporations are passe, lifelong careers are rare and a company's most critical resource "walks out the door around 5:30 p.m. every...