Word: demos
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...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...
When you write about technology, you see a lot of demos, demo being the industry term for when an executive demonstrates a new product for an audience, usually with the aid of a nervous tech-support guy. Under the emotional stress of the moment, the product quite often vomits data and dies. But not always. The two best demos I've seen this year were from two very different companies, Apple and Microsoft, and oddly enough, they were in many ways demos of the same product. One is a gimme: the iPhone, Apple's brilliant deconstruction of the common cell...
...Nintendo's Wii, which works on the same principle, converting physical movements into virtual ones. People are ready to break the fourth wall of computing and put their fingers directly on the data. This is manual-free computing, instinctive and intuitive, with zero learning curve. "Almost anybody can demo it," Bach says proudly. "That's when you know you have a great product...