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Issue 110

November 2006

What If You Never Forgot Anything?

  • A Head For Detail

    Gordon Bell feeds every piece of his life into a surrogate brain, and soon the rest of us will be able to do the same. But does perfect memory make you smarter, or just drive you nuts?

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Features

  • Telly Visionary Telly Visionary

    With 15 Emmys and a superstar client list, set designer Jim Fenhagen is the hottest thing on TV.

  • Down the Rabbit Hole Down the Rabbit Hole

    Making The Blair Witch Project taught Campfire how to tap the power of curiosity. Meet the puppet masters of viral marketing.

  • Hyper-Local Hero Hyper-Local Hero

    Ten years ago, Rob Curley was covering city hall for the Topeka daily paper. Now he's lighting up the entire industry. How a "nerd from Kansas" discovered the web, and hit the big time.

  • Rob Curley's Greatest Clicks
  • Pop! Till You Drop

    For a decade, Pop!Tech has brought together luminaries, wizards, writers, entrepreneurs, and other brainiacs to try to outhink the world's problems. This year's no different.

  • Pop!Stars 2006
  • The Expert on Experts

    An expert guide to expertise.

Next

  • Mommy and Me Mommy and Me

    Tellme Networks' products are so simple, even the CEO's mother gets them. In fact, she has to.

  • New Profit

    Make money. Change the world. Better yet, says Good Capital, do both.

  • Coach For A Day

    EA's NFL Head Coach video game offers a mixed message on the art of management.

  • Local Color

    With the rollout of Nokia's flagship stores around the world, designers Tim Kobe and Wilhelm Oehl are balancing Nokia's global brand with local flavor.

  • Rumble In the Music Jungle

    The last profit center of the recording industry gets an iTunes makeover.

  • How Rumblefish Works
  • Do You Believe In Magic?

    You should, but only if you're prepared to do the work.

  • House In a Box

    Century-old construction technology comes home.

  • The Superfruits Are Coming

    Bored with blueberries? Passing on pomegranates? Marketers are pushing a new generation of exotic, good-for-you flavors.

  • In the Mood

    A new way to map human cities.

  • Best Blogs: Social Science

    Kevin Bacon? Social networking is way past him. Here are three smart blogs to help you keep up.

  • Whither the Checkout Girl?

    "Probably no job in the supermarket affects the store's success more than that of the checker." So opined a 1965 training film called The Front Line, which documented a pre-barcode world where a checker's smile and friendliness were key, because the checker "is the shopper's last, and often only, personal contact with the store."

  • Cha Cha Cha

    Scott Jones is back in his zone, working 20-hour days on a new Internet search engine.

  • Keep Out

    The newest innovations in Web security and privacy.

  • Reading List: The New Capitalists

    Ordinary investors are holding more sway, write the authors of The New Capitalists.

  • More Recommended Reading
  • Home Away From Home

    Get yourself a temporary office to work like a grown-up while traveling.

  • Electric Power

    Are you ready for the sports car that hits 112 mph in first gear--and isn't a gas guzzler?

  • What, No Shoe Phone?

    High technology has infiltrated the next generation of footwear. We decide which pairs kick our lives up a notch--and which need a reboot.

Fast Talk

From the Editor

  • Letter From the Editor

    The subject of this month's cover story, Gordon Bell, has embarked on a little experiment with huge implications: He's recording and preserving essentially everything that happens to him--every phone call, every email, every conversation, every document that comes his way. It's scrapbooking on silicon steroids.