Fast Company

Fast Company covers the future of business, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.

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Oct 2, 2021 - 28 min

Death threats, misinformation, and racism in Silicon Valley

Meet the designer shaping the future of Twitter.

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Oct 1, 2021 - 5 min

3 habits of especially happy people

What to do if you don't feel you're being cheerful enough.

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Aug 10, 2021 - 7 min

The unspoken reasons employees don’t want remote work to end

Productivity is up, but that’s not all.

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Jul 17, 2021 - 7 min

For the music industry, cryptocurrency will be as disruptive as MTV

How NFTs could revitalise the artist-fan relationship.

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Jun 24, 2021 - 40 min

Elon Musk’s ‘Teslas in tunnels’ are a $52 million bet on the future of transit

Should we be taking notice of the Las Vegas loop?

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Jun 3, 2021 - 9 min

How Apple’s new audio subscriptions are upending podcasting

The end of the tech giant's free audio content?

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May 24, 2021 - 27 min

Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter

The surprising life story of a typewriting virtuoso.

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May 15, 2021 - 7 min

‘Home Depot architecture’: how one developer is turning farm storage into sleek apartments

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Apr 27, 2021 - 6 min

10 questions to ask in a job interview that will really expose a company’s culture

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Apr 21, 2021 - 25 min

One secret weapon against extremism: Google ads promoting mindfulness

Technology's good-fight against domestic terrorism.

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Apr 12, 2021 - 6 min

We’re defining success wrong, and it’s hurting our happiness

It might be time to approach your goals differently.

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Mar 15, 2021 - 30 min

Inside Jeff Bezos’s failed attempt to make Amazon 'cool' like Apple and Nike

Why the company will never be stylish.

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Mar 7, 2021 - 28 min

‘This is bigger than just Timnit’: how Google tried to silence a critic and ignited a movement

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Jan 3, 2021 - 21 min

How Serena Williams conquers her daily schedule without breaking a sweat

The athlete and investor shares tricks and apps that help her stay ahead of her competition — and the calendar.

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Dec 7, 2020 - 6 min

Why people are turning to robots when they’re sad and anxious at work

AI offers employees judgement-free advice.

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Nov 24, 2020 - 8 min

Why we need to bring the entrepreneurship narrative back to small-business owners

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Nov 20, 2020 - 7 min

How to fight the groupthink that happens when we work virtually

A must-listen for those working remotely and struggling to get their opinions heard.

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Nov 16, 2020 - 8 min

Meet Kathrin Jansen, the woman leading Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine effort

The rock star scientist has a track record of producing difficult vaccines against the odds.

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Oct 30, 2020 - 9 min

Personalized learning hinges on relationships, not just algorithms

To recover all the ground lost during the pandemic, students are going to need more than technology.

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Oct 28, 2020 - 7 min

Google’s design chief on the future of your home

Ivy Ross discusses the impact of the pandemic on our homes and offices.

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Oct 22, 2020 - 7 min

The wild history of ballot designs — and what they say about our democracy

Examining the history of voting through a very specific lens — the ballot.

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Oct 10, 2020 - 21 min

Fake video threatens to rewrite history. Here’s how to protect it

AI-generated deepfakes aren’t just a problem for politics and other current affairs.

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Sep 28, 2020 - 8 min

Bored or overloaded? This is the amount of stress you need to get things done

For performance seekers, here is how to find a happy medium between too little and too much pressure.

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Sep 8, 2020 - 10 min

To be more inclusive, you need to understand exactly what exclusion looks likefas

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Aug 24, 2020 - 13 min

Meet the computer scientist and activist who got Big Tech to stand down

Joy Buolamwini is galvanizing a growing movement to expose the social consequences of AI.

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Aug 17, 2020 - 11 min

If entrepreneurs and VCs want to build, we first need to rebuild financial markets

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Aug 12, 2020 - 7 min

From AI to at-home care: the hospital of the future looks nothing like today's

And the future could be here a lot faster than people thought.

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Aug 4, 2020 - 8 min

Why doing awesome work means making yourself vulnerable

Brené Brown on why vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation.

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Aug 3, 2020 - 26 min

Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices

The consumer-electronics research arm has been quiet for years — but it's also been busy.

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Jul 25, 2020 - 18 min

25 years ago, ‘Waterworld’ forever changed how we think about hits and flops

Most experts considered the movie a failure, while in reality, it was far from that.

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Jul 10, 2020 - 10 min

How to build a ‘rest ethic’ that is as strong as your work one

We don't realise how busy we are until we take some time to reflect.

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Jul 5, 2020 - 28 min

Quibi before Quibi: the inside story of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s first dot-com failure

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Jun 30, 2020 - 9 min

How to stop catastrophizing and reduce your anxiety

During a time when things seem uncertain, these tricks can help you stop spiralling.

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Jun 24, 2020 - 14 min

How Sylvester Stallone cop movies explain changing attitudes about the police

A deep-dive into the muddled message about police in popular entertainment.

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Jun 17, 2020 - 24 min

The untold story of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s visionary 1980s tech Incubator

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Jun 17, 2020 - 11 min

Once we can work from anywhere, does the world need Silicon Valley?

Could the Bay Area become a concept rather than a location?

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Jun 12, 2020 - 9 min

The twisted psychology of militarized police uniforms

They're not just utilitarian garments — projecting symbolic power is also part of their mission.

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May 6, 2020 - 16 min

Why government websites fail

The real reason government systems tend to be terrible runs much deeper than language.

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May 6, 2020 - 21 min

How PayPal CEO Dan Schulman is leading a more inclusive way forward

He spent decades running with Wall Street's wolves. Now he's rethinking capitalism.

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Apr 21, 2020 - 24 min

Snap is the world’s most innovative company of 2020

One of the most remarkable tech comeback stories in history.

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Apr 16, 2020 - 9 min

A former Navy SEAL and a neuroscientist share 3 secrets for overcoming coronavirus stress

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Apr 14, 2020 - 12 min

How the telephone failed its big test during 1918’s Spanish flu pandemic

Bell’s invention was supposed to make life under quarantine bearable. But it didn't quite work out.

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Apr 2, 2020 - 14 min

The untold origin story of the N95 mask

The most important design object of our time was more than a century in the making.

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Mar 24, 2020 - 4 min

This beautiful library in ‘Minecraft’ lets people access the work of censored journalists from anywhere

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Mar 12, 2020 - 17 min

I replaced Netflix and HBO with network TV for a week, and my brain is different now

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Mar 6, 2020 - 7 min

I’m an expert on complex design systems. Even I can’t figure out recycling

Chaos reigns in recycling - can we change it?

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Mar 2, 2020 - 9 min

What happened when I discovered the men I managed were paid a lot more than me

An all too familiar story for many women.

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Mar 2, 2020 - 5 min

A tribute to Larry Tesler, the father of user-friendly design

He transformed the computer from a black box of esoteric codes into an intuitive machine.

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Feb 27, 2020 - 10 min

1 trillion trees: What would it take, how would it work, and is it even worth it?

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Feb 24, 2020 - 7 min

Steve Jobs’s real talent wasn’t design — it was seduction

Music. Tactility. Emotion. Belonging.

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Feb 19, 2020 - 11 min

AI is moving too fast, and that’s a good thing

Quantum speed: AI has quickly gone from laboratory curiosity to economic force.

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Feb 18, 2020 - 5 min

Google’s director of talent explains how to write a killer résumé

Four Google-certified ways to make you stand out from the pack.

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Feb 11, 2020 - 8 min

How a sex chatbot made me a better communicator at work

Why practising a little assertiveness can go a long way.

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Jan 29, 2020 - 14 min

Google keeps an eye on what you buy, and it’s not alone

Turns out, Google is tallying up receipts and invoices found in your Gmail account...

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Jan 28, 2020 - 9 min

8 books on technology you should read in 2020

From our life online, social media and extremism to surveillance capitalism, and racism in tech.

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Jan 22, 2020 - 16 min

The untold story of the vegetable peeler that changed the world

Listen together: it's often the simplest of items we take for granted.

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Jan 21, 2020 - 10 min

MC Hammer’s breakout smash ‘U Can’t Touch This’ is 30 years old: The inside story of its iconic video

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Jan 17, 2020 - 7 min

The next big thing in transportation? The ‘un-car’

From the sharing economy to climate consciousness: evolving demands are an opportunity to innovate.

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Jan 16, 2020 - 15 min

How Facebook’s ‘like’ button hijacked our attention and broke the 2010s

The 'like' button has become a social currency we can't imagine the internet without.

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Jan 14, 2020 - 14 min

How the remnants of About.com are stealthily taking over the internet

At a time when digital media companies are faltering, publisher Dotdash is a unique success story.

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Jan 10, 2020 - 6 min

I’m a hacker, and here’s how your social media posts help me break into your company

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Jan 7, 2020 - 5 min

The 4,000-year-old history of New Year’s resolutions and how they became big business

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Dec 27, 2019 - 8 min

I’m a scientist. This is what I had to ‘unlearn’ to build a successful business

CEO of Terramera, explains how he had to shift his mindset to build a sustainable company.

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Dec 21, 2019 - 18 min

The weird, wonderful world of Y2K survival guides: A look back

Why these guides pushed authors to write fascinating books.

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Dec 18, 2019 - 12 min

AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today

Decades before Messenger, WhatsApp or Slack, AIM was the killer app of instant messaging.

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Dec 16, 2019 - 17 min

Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here

A new startup is hoping to cure depression, opioid addiction and alcoholism.

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Dec 15, 2019 - 13 min

I became part of the alt-right at age 13, thanks to Reddit and Google

How Big Tech platforms influence the way we think.

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Nov 23, 2019 - 10 min

This is why everyone thinks they are middle class (even if they aren’t)

Are reality shows, the 2008 financial crash and student debt making American feel poorer than they are?

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Nov 20, 2019 - 8 min

It’s time to forgive ‘Rick and Morty’ for its toxic fandom

Are its worst fans ruining it for everybody?

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Nov 11, 2019 - 11 min

The Instagram trap: Social influence is helping women build brands—as long as they follow the rules

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Nov 7, 2019 - 8 min

The great rebranding of body hair

These brands are getting behind body hair - and it appears to be quite lucrative.

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Nov 5, 2019 - 18 min

50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420

The people behind the groundbreaking precursor to the internet tell their story.

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Nov 1, 2019 - 19 min

This man is disrupting the cult of the billionaire

Author Anand Giridharadas is rebuking the idea that philanthropic billionaires are society’s heroes.

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Oct 22, 2019 - 7 min

How the Extinction Rebellion got its powerful, unsettling logo

"As visually unappealing as it is optimistic."

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Oct 14, 2019 - 16 min

From tarot readings to Gemini memes, astrology has officially infiltrated work culture

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Oct 12, 2019 - 18 min

The 2-year-old Instagram influencers who make more than you

There’s big money to be had, but is it exploitative?

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Oct 11, 2019 - 13 min

Facebook’s endgame: Getting inside your wallet

What if you could get your "likes" out of the digital sphere and exchange them for something like - food?

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Oct 9, 2019 - 8 min

The bizarre secret history of beds

How did they go from a place strangers would share and Kings would rule to becoming private spheres?

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Oct 7, 2019 - 9 min

What the first porta-potty can teach designers about digital privacy

User preferences are not stagnant, they draw on psychology, sociology, economics, and politics.

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Oct 6, 2019 - 25 min

The fall of WeWork’s Adam Neumann

The inside story of how the CEO went from the top of the world to out of his company.

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Oct 5, 2019 - 11 min

Why it’s so hard for you and your partner to both have successful careers

Is your company introducing policies meant to support dual-career couples? Is it enough?

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Oct 3, 2019 - 32 min

Google’s quantum bet on the future of AI — and what it means for humanity

Inside Google’s relentless pursuit of perfect AI and the derision and desperation left in the wake.

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Oct 3, 2019 - 7 min

Dog complex: analyzing Freud’s relationship with his pets

He fell in love with his dog, but he ignored these connections in his patients.

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Sep 26, 2019 - 6 min

I disrupted the system, and I failed. Here’s what I learned

Walking a marathon taught this sociologist that going against the grain doesn’t always end in triumph.

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Sep 20, 2019 - 7 min

Scientists are racing to reengineer the banana before it’s gone forever

Can we save the banana?

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Sep 18, 2019 - 22 min

Inside Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd’s mission to build the 'female internet'

Following Bumble's IPO, we revisit this piece on the now 31-year-old billionaire.

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Sep 10, 2019 - 23 min

This senator was Big Tech’s friend—but is now its greatest threat

Senator Mark Warner sounds the alarm on Big Tech's misconduct.

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Sep 6, 2019 - 9 min

I’m one of the rare few who needs only 4 hours of sleep per night

How would you spend your time if you only needed four hours of sleep?

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Aug 28, 2019 - 7 min

This is how to actually work smarter, not harder

The old adage goes "work smarter not harder", but what does it actually mean?

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Aug 27, 2019 - 14 min

America’s top CEOs say they are no longer putting shareholders before everyone else

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Aug 26, 2019 - 18 min

Snap’s secret weapon speaks

In this exclusive interview, Snapchat's CTO shares his vision for the future of AI.

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Aug 22, 2019 - 11 min

Elon Musk and Tesla are impossible to root for, but we’re doing it anyway

Could Musk's desire to monopolise Silicon Valley kill Tesla?

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Aug 20, 2019 - 16 min

The founder of TED shares what it takes to build the world’s most popular conference

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Aug 14, 2019 - 8 min

Exclusive: A first look inside Google’s top-secret design lab

Step inside the "sanctuary" that's off-limits to most (including their own employees).

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Aug 12, 2019 - 34 min

Atlanta’s black tech founders are changing entrepreneurship in America. Can they avoid Silicon Valley’s mistakes?

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Aug 9, 2019 - 9 min

Everyone hates open offices. Here’s why they still exist

The noise, the distractions, the lack of privacy - why are we still working this way?

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Aug 5, 2019 - 6 min

Six productivity experts share how to actually get work done during the summer

How to overcome the summer office slump.

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Aug 4, 2019 - 43 min

The most powerful person in Silicon Valley

It's not Musk, Bezos, or Zuckerberg - meet the man spending billions for an AI-powered utopia.

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Jul 29, 2019 - 11 min

How tech workers became activists, leading a resistance movement that is shaking up Silicon Valley

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Jul 26, 2019 - 12 min

How GE invested in fossil fuels, and missed the opportunity to be a clean energy giant

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Jul 23, 2019 - 12 min

Want to break up Google and Facebook? Be careful what you wish for

The lessons we need to learn from the havoc caused when reining in Microsoft.

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Jul 22, 2019 - 21 min

Instagram’s IGTV was supposed to be the “next generation’s TV-viewing experience.” What happened?

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Jul 21, 2019 - 28 min

Why everyone in Hollywood and Silicon Valley is stalking J.J. Abrams

From Lost to Star Wars to Armageddon, J.J. Abrams has certainly staked a claim in the media world.